A little over a year after the exhibition at the end of 2015, Michel Aubéry returns to the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco with a new solo exhibition, devoted this time to sea turtles. The exhibition runs from 9 to 29 March 2017 under the patronage of Prince Albert II, who also attends the opening, and Amalart continues to support the artist in promoting his work.
At the centre of the installation is a large turtle, whose shell is painted with the same alphabet of signs that Aubéry uses on his canvases. Around it, the acrylic and stencil paintings fill the museum with sea creatures: turtles, sharks, rays, octopuses, nautiluses, crabs and seahorses. The message is the one that runs through all his recent work: the defence of these animals and the threats that surround them, starting with the pollution of the seas, to which one of the works is devoted.
A Monegasque, Aubéry has been drawing since he was nine. Jean Cocteau noticed his drawings in 1960 and the following year, at fifteen, he exhibited at the Rauch gallery in Monaco. After studying Fine Arts and spending years alongside the artists of the School of Nice, he taught art at the American School of Monaco; he returned to painting in 2007 and in 2015 exhibited in the Monaco Pavilion at Expo Milano. His studio is on the Principality's harbour.
The first exhibition at the Oceanographic Museum, December 2015 →
In May, Aubéry in China: From Montecarlo with love →
Summer 2018, in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat: Sea and Mountain Poetry →
