Armand Scholtès

Armand Scholtès
Armand Scholtès was born on 6th September 1935 in Moyeuvre-Grande (Moselle,
France) where he lived until 1986, the date he moved to Nice, where he
currently lives and works.
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:
1972 Geneva (Switzerland), University Centre.
1973 Metz, Galerie Saint Marcel.
1974 Strasbourg, Galerie Gutemberg.
1974 Lausanne (Switzerland), University Centre.
1976 Pont-à-Mousson, Cultural Centre at the Abbey of Prémontrés.
1976 Sierra (Switzerland), Galerie La Villa.
1979 Strasbourg, Le Maillon Cultural Centre.
1980 Belfort, Museum of Art and History.
1980 Bouxwiller, Marché aux Grains Theatre.
1981 Mulhouse, Museum of Printed Textiles.
1982 Metz, Library & Media Centre.
1983 Troyes, Galerie Passages, Contemporary Art Centre.
1984 Nice, Galerie Anne-Marie Rey.
1984 Lunéville, "L’œoeuvre au noir", Galerie Trompe l'Oeil.
1984 Pont-à-Mousson, Cultural Centre at the Abbey of Prémontrés.
1984 Nancy, Galerie Lillebonne.
1984 Troyes, Maison du Boulanger Cultural Centre.
1984 Moyeuvre-Grande, State Forest.
1985 Bar-le-Duc, barrois Museum; Prefecture of Meuse; Crédit Agricole regional office;
Notre-dame church; town hall.
1985 Metz, Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs.
1985 Wasselonne, Marcel Pagnol College; Cultural Centre.
1985 Strasbourg, "Archeology", Galerie du Faisan.
1986 Forbach, Galerie l'Oeil.
1986 Metz, Galerie Photok.
1987 Nice, Villa Arson workshop, National Contemporary Art Centre.
1988 Nice, Galerie Racine.
1990 Nice, Galerie Itinéraires.
1991 Nice, Galerie Itinéraires.
1991/93
Nice, Galerie Itinéraires, in situ creation of frescos.
1993 Nice, Espace Art Bleu de France.
1994 Nice, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMAC).
1995 Parma (Italy), Centro Immagini Contemporanee, International Line.
1996 Villefranche-sur-Mer, exhibition at the port and on the beach.
1996 Nice, "30 avenue des Baumettes - the house as an artwork".
1996 Cannes, Art Jonction 96, International and Contemporary Art Fair, one man show
(Galerie Scholtès & Ulivieri).
1996 Nice, exhibitions and installations at Cap de Nice.
1997 Charleville-Mézières, exhibitions and installations within 3 600 m² of the Ardennes
Museum and Arthur Rimbaud Museum.
1996/97
Brazil, Chile (Cape Horn); "A small museum trip".
1997 Niort, Grande Galerie du Moulin du Roc, Scène Nationale.
1997 Lineart, International Art Fair, Gent, Belgium (Galerie Scholtès & Ulivieri).
1998 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Museum.
1998 Chaumont, Museum of Art and History.
1998 St’art, Contemporary Art Fair, Strasbourg (Galerie Scholtès & Ulivieri).
1998 Lineart, International Art Fair, Gent, Belgium (Galerie Scholtès & Ulivieri).
1999 Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, Pierre Noël Museum; Media Library.
1999 Alençon, Museum of Fine Arts and Lace.
1999 St’art, Contemporary Art Fair, Strasbourg (Galerie Scholtès & Ulivieri).
1999 Kunstmarkt, Contemporary Art Fair, Dusseldorf, Germany (Galerie
Scholtès & Ulivieri).
1999 Artissima, Modern and Contemporary Art Fair, Turin, Italy (Galerie
Scholtès & Ulivieri).
1999 Lineart, International Art Fair, Gent, Belgium (Galerie Scholtès & Ulivieri).
2000 Belfort, Museum of Art and History; Municipal Library; Tour 46.
2000 St’art, Contemporary Art Fair, Strasbourg (Galerie Scholtès & Ulivieri).
2000 Artissima, Modern and Contemporary Art Fair, Turin, Italy (Galerie
Scholtès & Ulivieri).
2000 Nice, Galerie Joël Scholtès.
2003 Nice, Galerie Joël Scholtès.
2007 Nice, Cimiez Museum of Archeology.
2010 Nice, Galerie Joël Scholtès.
2012 Bar-le-Duc, barrois Museum, "The vegetal in Armand Scholtès' works".
2013 Carros, International Contemporary Art Centre (CIAC), "Retrospective".
2014 La-Seyne-sur-Mer, Galeries du Fort Napoléon.
2014 Metz, Musées de Metz Métropole La Cour d’Or.
2015 Thionville, Troisème Lieu Media Library.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1980 Epinal, Imagery Museum.
1981/85
Pont-à-Mousson, Abbey of Prémontrés; participation in International
Choreography Meetings, and performance of in situ works.
1982 Strasbourg, Art Prospect.
1983 Metz, Contemporary Creation Route.
1983 Rouen, Ouville Abbey, International Biennial of Textile Creation.
1984 Bar-le-Duc, barrois Museum, "Tracks/Footprints".
1984 Altkirch, Rhénan Contemporary Art Centre, "Tracks + Signs".
1984 Basel (Switzerland), International Contemporary Art Fair (Galerie Voix).
1984 Paris, Espace Bateau Lavoir.
1984 Epinal, Theatre, making of a long-playing film on artistic creation in Lorraine.
1984 Troyes, "Homage to Gaston Bachelard – The institution now", Galerie Passages and
Thibaud de Champagne Cultural Centre.
1985 Wangen, A collector's house.
1985 Strasbourg, Galerie du Faisan.
1985 Elie Cartan Institute at Henri Poincaré University of Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy.
1985 Metz then touring exhibition; show produced by the Plastic Arts Delegation on board a
specially chartered train.
1985 Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, Pierre Noël Museum, stained glass exhibition.
1986 Nice, Galerie Le Cairn.
1986 Strasbourg/Metz/Paris/Berlin, etc., "Mail Art" exhibitions.
1987 Forbach, Galerie l'Oeil.
1987 Nice, Art Jonction International - International Contemporary Art Fair (Galerie du
Faisan).
1988 Strasbourg, Galerie du Faisan.
1988 Cannes, La Castre Museum.
1988 Nice, Galerie Racine.
1989 Nice, Galerie Itinéraires.
1989 Cannes, La Castre Museum.
1989 Strasbourg, Galerie du Faisan.
1990 Nice, Art Jonction International - International Contemporary Art Fair (Galerie
Itinéraires).
1990 Nice, Galerie Calibre 33.
1990 Strasbourg, Galerie du Faisan.
1990 Nice, Galerie Itinéraires.
1991 Montecicardo (Pesaro - Italy), international exhibition "Landscape/Paesaggio".
1992 Nice, Galerie Itinéraires.
1992 Strasbourg, Regional Directorate of Customs, "Free-Spaces".
1993 Belfort, Museum of Art and History, "Stories", exhibition of thirteen artists from Nice
(co production with the Galerie Itinéraires).
1994 Florence (Italy), "Convivenze", Galerie Faustini.
1994 Paris, Galerie 1900/2000.
1996 Spoleto (Italy), "Progettolego", Museo Centro Arte Contemporanea.
1996 Florence (Italy), "Progettolego", Galleria Larga.
1997 St'Art 97, Contemporary Art Fair, Strasbourg (Galerie Scholtès & Ulivieri).
1997 Lineart, International Art Fair, Gent, Belgium (Galerie Scholtès & Ulivieri).
1998 St'Art 98, Contemporary Art Fair, Strasbourg (Galerie Scholtès & Ulivieri).
1998 Honfleur, C.G.B. Galerie.
1999 Parma (Italy), "1989 acquisizionni 1999", Centro Immagini Contemporanee,
International Line.
2003 Nice, Galerie Joël Scholtès, "Artists' toys", showing artworks by: Ben, Panamarenko,
Noël Dolla.
2004 Morocco, French Cultural Institute, "Mail exposed", Michel Bohbot collection.
2005 Sens, Municipal Library, "Mail exposed - Painted envelopes", Michel Bohbot
collection.
2005 Nice, "Interior design", Galerie Loft and Galerie Joël Scholtès, showing artworks by:
Bernard Pagès, Ben, Bernar Venet, Hans Hartung.
2007 Nice, Louis Nucéra Library, "A poet's entourage – Michel Bohbot".
2007 Metz, Lorraine Regional Fund for Contemporary Art – 49 Nord-Est, exhibition "Side
roads".
2011 Nice, Louis Nucera Library, "Raphaël Monticelli, writing in snippets".
2011 Issy-les-Moulineaux, Media Library, "Michel Bohbot – Dialogues with art".
2011 Montbéliard, Museum and Media Library, Artists' books – Michel Bohbot collection.
2012 Nice, Galerie Jacqueline Perrin.
2012 Sens, Museum, Michel Bohbot, "From art to the book".
2013 Saint-Julien de Sault, city Library, "Mail exposed".
2014 Privas, Theatre, "Creations of Grotte Chauvet".
2014 Mandelieu la Napoule, Like Art Gallery, "Hommage aux pionniers de l'Art" (Homage
to Art pioneers) exhibition.
MUSEUMS, COLLECTIONS AND PUBLIC ORDERS
1980 Cultural Centre at the Abbey of Prémontrés, Pont-à-Mousson.
1981 Museum of Printed Textiles, Mulhouse.
1981 Creation, on public procurement, of a sculpture for the Lycée de Forbach.
1982 National Fund for Contemporary Art (Paris).
1983 Crédit Agricole of Haute-Normandie regional office, Rouen.
1984 Lorraine Regional Fund for Contemporary Art (Metz).
1984 Creation, on public procurement, of a large fresco (150 m²) at the Lycée de Longwy.
1984 Alsace Regional Fund for Contemporary Art (Selestat)
1984 National Fund for Contemporary Art (Paris).
1985 Museum of Art and History, Belfort.
1985 Town of Bar-le-Duc.
1985 Meuse Crédit Agricole regional office (Bar-le-Duc).
1985 Bar-le-Duc Museum.
1985 Creation, after an order from Lorraine Vitrail ,of stained glass
.1985 Town of Thionville.
1986 Strasbourg Museum of Fine Arts.
1986 Town of Moyeuvre-Grande.
1986 Creation of a fresco for the Hôtel Beau Rivage in Nice.
1989 La Castre Museum, Cannes.
1990 Picasso Museum, Antibes.
1990 Chicago Board of Trade (USA).
1991/93
Design and creation of a fresco covering a 120 m² flat.
.1996 Nantes, art library.
1998 Arthur Rimbaud Museum and Ardennes Museum of Charleville-Mézières.
2005 National Fund for Contemporary Art (Paris).
2012 barrois Museum, Bar-le-Duc.
2013 City of Thionville.
2013 CIAC (International Centre for Contemporary Art), Carros.
2013 Musées de Metz Métropole La Cour d’Or, Metz.
2013 Picasso Museum, Antibes.
2013 National Museum of Moern Art, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
2013 Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Nice.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1983 International Biennial of Textile Creation Catalogue, Rouen.
1983 Catalogue "Routes of Contemporary Creation", Metz; text by Jean-Luc Chalumeau.
1984 "Archeology", Editions Voix Richard Meier; collection Estampes.
1984 Catalogue for the Alsace Regional Fund for Contemporary Art (Volume 2); text by
Jean-Pierre Caloz.
1984 Catalogue for the exhibition "Homage to Gaston Bachelard – The institution now",
Galerie Passages & Thibaud de Champagne Cultural Centre, Troyes.
1984 Catalogue for the "Tracks + Signs" exhibition, Altkrich.
1984 Catalogue for the "Tracks + Signs" exhibition, Bar-le-Duc Museum, texts by LouisMichel Gohel and Jean-Pierre Caloz.
1984 "About Armand Scholtès" by Jean-Pierre Caloz.
1985 Catalogue for the personal exhibition at the Bar-le-Duc Museum; texts by LouisMichel Gohel, Germain Roesz, Roger Decaux and Jean-Pierre Caloz.
1986 "Desert Orcs" text by Germain Roesz, Editions Voix Richard Meier.
1986 Catalogue for the exhibition at the Galerie L'Oeil; text by Théo Wolters; Editions Voix
Richard Meier.
1987 Catalogue for Art Jonction International, Contemporary Art Fair, Nice.
1989 Catalogue for the plastic arts - acquisitions 1984/1989, Lorraine Regional Fund for
Contemporary Art, Metz
.1989 Catalogue for the collective exhibition at the La Castre Museum, Cannes.
1991 Catalogue for the "Landscape / Paesaggio" exhibition, text by Andrea B. Del Guercio.
1992 Catalogue for the "Free Spaces" exhibition, Regional Directorate of Customs for
Strasbourg; texts by Dimitri Konstantinidis, Michel Plancade and Yves Schaetzle.
1992 Catalogue for the exhibition at the Espace Art Bleu de France, Nice.
1993 Catalogue for the "Routes" exhibition, Belfort Museum, Editions de La Différence;
texts by Christophe Cousin, Pierre Chaigneau, Claude Fournet and Théo Wolters.
1993 Catalogue for the exhibition at the Espace Art Bleu de France, Nice.
1994 Catalogue for the "Convivenze" exhibition at Galerie Faustini, Florence, texts by
Joachim Burmeister and Antonella Micaletti.
1994 Catalogue for the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary and Modern Art, Nice;
text by Pierre Chaigneau.
1996 Catalogue for the exhibition "Progettolego, Museo Centro Arte Contemporanea Spoleto (Italy), Galleria Larga - Florence.
1996 Catalogue for Art Jonction Cannes 1996, International contemporary Art Fair.
1996 Catalogue "A season at the Moulin du Roc", Scène Nationale de Niort.
1997 Catalogue for the exhibition at the Ardennes Museum and Arthur Rimbaud Museum in
Charleville-Mézières; texts by Alain Tourneux (curator of the Museums of CharlevilleMézières), Xavier Girard (Curator of the Matisse Museum in Nice) and Raphaël Monticelli
(poet).
1997 Catalogue for Linéart 1997,Contemporary Art Fair, Gent (Belgium).
1998 Catalogue for St'Art 1998, Contemporary Art Fair, Strasbourg.
1998 Catalogue for the exhibition co produced by the Chaumont Museum of Art and
History, the Pierre Noël Museum in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, Museum of Art and History of
Belfort and the Fine Arts and Lace Museum in Alençon.
1999 "La roupie de Cent Sonnets", poems by André Blavier, illustrations (fragments) by
Armand Scholtès.
2002 "Eloge du possible", poem by Paule Stoppa, watercolours (screen printing) by Armand
Scholtès, L’Ormaie.
2002 "Le trait est un vol d’abeilles", poems by Michel Bohbot, Editions des Deux Sources.
2003 "Propos à voix basse", poems by Michel Bohbot, Editions des Deux Sources.
2004 Catalogue for the exhibition "Mail exposed", Michel Bohbot collection, French
Cultural Institutes of Morocco.
2005 Catalogue for the exhibition "Mail exposed - Painted envelopes" Michel Bohbot,
collection, Sens, Municipal Library.
2007 Catalogue for the "Traceology" exhibition at the Nice Archeology Museum, text by
Raphaël Monticelli
2007 Catalogue for the exhibition "A poet's entourage – Michel Bohbot",
2010 "L’Art penteur", œworks by Armand Scholtès, photos by Claudye Colfort, text by
Daniel Cassini.
2011 Book of drawings "Carnet de promenades" - Volume 1, text by Jean-Pierre Caloz
2011 Book of drawings "Carnet de promenades" - Volume 2, text by Jean-Pierre Caloz
2011 Catalogue for the exhibition "Michel Bohbot – Dialogues with art" at the Issy-lesMoulineaux Media Library
2011 Catalogue for the exhibition "Raphaël Monticelli, writing in snippets", Louis Nucéra
Library, Nice.
2012 Book of drawings "Carnet de promenades" - Volume 3, text by Jean-Pierre Caloz
2012 Book of drawings "Lignes et brouillard", text by Jean-Pierre Caloz
2012 Catalogue for the exhibition "The vegetal in the works of Armand Scholtès" at the
Barrois Museum in Bar-le-Duc, texts by Charlie Galibert and Jean-Pierre Caloz.
2013 Catalogue for the "Retrospective" exhibition at the Carros International Contemporary
Art Centre, texts by Jean-Pierre Caloz, Charlie Galibert, Raphaël Monticelli.
2013 "Faire Part" magazine, edition dedicated to the "Creations of the Grotte Chauvet"
exhibition, theatre of Privas.
FILMS ON ARMAND SCHOLTES AND HIS WORK
1984 Involved in making a film on contemporary creation, Epinal theatre.
1990 25-minute film on the pictorial work created at 30 avenue des Baumettes in Nice;
EPAC, Nice.
1996 "Armand Scholtès", film made by the audiovisual department at the Nice Museum of
Modern and Contemporary Art at 30 avenue des Baumettes. Distributed by
Scholtès & Ulivieri.
2006 Film by Raoul Robecchi – "Variations".
2011 "De lendemains et de souvenirs " - Films and slide shows covering Armand Scholtès'
key exhibitions and most recent works.
2012 Portrait of Armand Scholtès, 52-minutes documentary.