Christophe Tissot
Born in 1960
TRAINING
1987
First studio, rue d’Avron, Paris
De 1978 à 1985
Alumnus of the Institut des Sciences Politiques in Paris.
Reserve officer cadet at the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr-Coëtquidan.
Preparatory year at the Lycée Fenelon, Geography degree.
De 1970 à 1983
• Studied for four years with the engraver Jean-Claude Reynal, in particular the techniques of etching and dry point engraving.
• 12 years of training at the Ateliers du Musée des Arts Décoratifs du Louvre under the supervision of Pierre Belvés, director of the children’s workshops, whose assistant he became in his final year.
• Evening classes at the École Boulle, drawing classes given by Hervé Télémaque, and classes in perspective.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERSONAL PROJECTS
2017
Les Ultimes, Galerie Cipango, Paris.
Interviews with Christophe TISSOT and the writer and journalist Bernadette COSTA-PRADES.
2016
New Signs, Galerie Cipango, Paris.
2014
Galerie Cipango, Paris.
2013
Black Wood, Galerie Cipango, Paris.
2012 / 2016
Réalisation d’une suite de douze grandes tapisseries Les 12 Coqs, ateliers Pinton, Aubusson- Felletin (Creuse) d’après des oeuvres de 1987.
2012
Mobilis, short film by Jacques Dutoit, performance of the dancer and choreographer Maroussia Vossen in front of four large Indian ink works from the series Trajectoire.
2011
Le Fleuve Mémoire, Collégiale Saint-Pierre Le Puellier, Orléans, danced performance by Maroussia Vossen.
Transposition, Galerie Cipango, Paris, danced performance by Maroussia Vossen.
2010 / 2011
L’Ecorce de nos rêves, Galerie Cipango, Paris.
2010
Paroles de Loup, Galerie Cipango, Paris.
2008
Les ambassadeurs du Loup et du Chaperon Rouge, PFI Tours
2007
Le Fleuve Mémoire, Esplanade des Droits de l’Enfant, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, Indre et Loire.
2006
Creation of the Fleuve Mémoire, a polyptych 30 m/100 feet in length, in homage to the Loire and large rivers, sponsored by Allain Bougrin Dubourg, president of the LPO.
2005 / 2010
Les Dragons de la Loire – Permanent exhibition, with the backing of the Ministry of Culture, of 32 large format paintings, Centre Régional de Cancérologie de Tours (architect Aymeric Zublena) inaugurated by Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, minister of Culture.
2004
Creation in the Corona Médical factory of a large format painted work, Remember.
2000
Production of the Mur Lion, a fresco 126 m/415 feet long in Singapore, inaugurated on 12 July 2000 by David Te Lim, minister of Defence, Information and the Arts.
1999
Creation of a jewellery theme, La Vague, for Baccarat.
1998
Conception of a sons et lumières ballet spectacle for the Place Vendôme, Paris. This project would be pre-selected as part of the Third Millennium Festivities and supported by the Ministry of Culture, the Paris City Hall, and the heritage office.
1996
International décors for Louis Vuitton windows.
1994
Sculpted décor Les Tulipes for the Cerruti boutiques in Paris, Tokyo, Geneva.
Le Jardin Imaginaire – General curatorship of the Salon L’Art du Jardin – Parc de Saint-Cloud.
1993
Le Cavalier Blanc, Hugo Boss (Philippe Stark), Place des Victoires, Paris.
Ephemeral installation, Yves Saint-Laurent Haute-Couture windows, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré Paris.
1992
Les 12 dragons, Galerie Piano Nobile, Krakow, with the help of the Institut Français.
Il était une fois un coq, Private venue, Paris.
1990
Essay : Carnet des mémoires oubliées.
Interview with Christine Goémé (France-Culture) about Albert Jacquard.
1989
Images et Mouvements, experimental spectacle, 20th anniversary of the death of O Sensei Morihei Ueshiba, Sevran.
Mille Ans – Staged exhibition, studio on Rue d’Avron, Paris.
Paris.
1988
Les sept Cavaliers – Centre Culturel d’Annecy.
Les Olympionikes – Exposition scénarisée, studio on Rue d’Avron, Paris.
1987
La Science, l’Art, la Parole et l’Image – Discussion with Albert Jacquard at the school of professional instruction, E.Jules Marais, in Saint-Denis.
1984
Décors for a play by Marguerite Duras, Navire Night, Cambridge University, UK.
1983
Project for an Atelier de l’Enfance pour le Musée du Grand Louvre at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.