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Backlit artworks, Lyon, France ©
“Guillaume Bottazzi, pioneer of the neuroaesthetics stream, has since over 30 years signed about 100 artworks in public spaces.”
Les Echos newspaper, May 2021
Enamels, Grand Paris ©
“Guillaume Bottazzi’s practice illustrates the use of curves and the expression of a smooth beauty, without sharp edges or angles. His work automatically, probably unconsciously, arouses pleasure and catches the eye.”
Ichtus Magazine, July 2022
Enamels, Marseille, France ©
“Two new monumental works by the painter Guillaume Bottazzi are part of Marseille’s heritage. For the pleasure of the eyes, these two poetic works will be visible to all passers-by. The fuchsia and buttercup pink tones lead us sinuously into a deliciously unreal universe. They create a dreamlike, enchanting space that evolves according to our imagination. These creations are an ode to the joy of living. They are made with enamels, a natural material composed of powdered minerals.”
Muuuz magazine, July 2022

Enamels, Grand Paris ©
“For the past 30 years, the prolific Guillaume Bottazzi has been travelling the world to disseminate works in situ. A keen espouser of enamel and fabric, he is an ambassador for environmental art.”
Le Monde newspaper, September 2020

Oil on canvas, Grand Paris ©
“The famous French artist Guillaume Bottazzi signs his 100th work in the public space with a painting that integrates the cathedral reception hall of the L’Archipel residence in Alfortville, Grand Paris. […] With this 100th work enthroned in the public space, Bottazzi signs a creation not only aesthetic but with recognized therapeutic virtues, which will delight visitors!”
Muuuz magazine, May 2022

Enamels, Brussels ©
With this installation by Guillaume Bottazzi, the residents of the residence will be immersed in a poetic and enchanting universe, an ode to the joy of living.””
Immoweek, July 2022

Enamels, Mandelieu, Côte-d’Azur ©
“Guillaume Bottazzi is used to creating works in public spaces. He belongs to the environmental art movement.”
Monaco Hebdo, Septembre 2021

Enamels, Paris ©
“The French visual artist and painter Guillaume Bottazzi is known for his striking, soft and colourful works, which he integrates into public spaces, for museums and private collectors.”
Robb Report magazine, April 2019

Enamels, Grand Paris ©
“For Guillaume Bottazzi, the aesthetic dimension is always present in his in situ works.”
Tendances Magazine, December 2014

Enamels, Grand Paris ©
“For this artist, who creates abstract compositions in warm colours, a work is never finished and continues to reinvent itself over time. His oblong forms in search of unity sometimes make reference to cellular corpuscles liquefying and floating through space. As always, any interpretation will be in keeping with this […]. The artist is happy to stay away from any attempt to re-appropriate these signs by inviting the spectator to immerse himself in his work.”
Flux News, quarterly magazine of contemporary art news, January/February/March 2013

Painting on fabric, London ©
“After a neurological study carried out in 2016, The Art of Curves in the Real World, a psychological look at the art of Guillaume Bottazzi, by Helmut Leder and Marcos Nadal, we are told that art has an effect on our brain. The works of Guillaume Bottazzi are proof of this study.”
Résidences Décorations magazine, January 2019

Backlit artworks and oil on canvas, Brussels ©
“Designed to promote a sense of everyday well-being, Guillaume Bottazzi’s lamps are inspired by a zen approach to Japanese-style living.”
Belles Demeures magazine, February 2019

Backlit artworks and oil on canvas, Brussels ©
“These lighting creations serve an elegant and poetic vision, it gives us space to breathe and relate to our energy.”
The Cheshire Magazine, February 2019

Enamels, Grand Paris ©
“Art as an exponent of sustainable development. Living better, living together and giving everyone access to culture through contemporary art: such is the project taken up by the painter Guillaume Bottazzi.”
Habitat Naturel magazine, June 2012

Oil on raw linen, Paris ©
“This oil painting on raw linen canvas invites us to travel in an understated and unreal universe. The painting enchants the space around it and nourishes the passer-by by making him dream. It creates a poetic and enchanting space, which evolves with our imagination.”
Prestige International Magazine, Summer 2021

Paintings on fabric, Emilia Romagna, Italy ©
“The penetration and impact caused by Bottazzi’s creations go beyond the volume conjured up by three-dimensionality. The interventions are set up as part of the environment, an environment that the visitors reclaim from a new perspective when they see it intervened by the artist.”
Arte Al Limite magazine, July – August 2017

Wall painting, Marseille Prado, Provence-Alpes Côte d’Azur ©
“When you approach them, you are first struck by the flying forms, curved circles and lines, volutes and circulations, which make up these murals. They float in space with a lightness that the density of the masses, however, did not allow us to foresee. They create a unique atmosphere.”
Revue Urbanisme magazine, October 2009

“What distinguishes Guillaume Bottazzi is that he composes abstractions. This surpassing of the merely decorative has an almost educational vocation. Without any narrative suggestion, therefore, the work raises questions about art.”
marie-claire magazine, October 2009

Enamels, Lyon, France ©
“A new monumental work by Guillaume Bottazzi is on display in Lyon, and can be discovered during the European Heritage Days. It is composed of enamels on glass and measures 3.55 m by 1.20 m. Guillaume Bottazzi translates his drawings using enamels on glass. The turquoise, blue and emerald green tones are a reference to the Saône and to the curves of the building’s atypical architecture. It is a poetic work and its dimension immerses the passer-by who can imagine, without seeing himself, to be within a surreal and aquatic universe.”
Le Parisien newspaper, September 2020

Backlit artworks, Lyon, France ©
“Guillaume Bottazzi’s works invite us to let go of our inhibitions and dare to dream […]. “
Widewalls Magazine, May 2016

Enamel, Grand Paris ©
“In the world of the city, works of art in public spaces soften the confrontation with an urbanism sometimes perceived as dehumanised: the works of Guillaume Bottazzi contribute to the well-being of the city’s inhabitants by introducing strangeness into their daily lives, a touch of fantasy in all the rigour.”
Arc-en-Ciel, Air Caraïbes inflight magazine, July/August 2015

Enamels and light ©
“The works of Guillaume Bottazzi create dreamlike spaces a dreamlike space in which we live. Space does not exist in itself but is a mental construction. These works beyond reality modify our environment and make our dream.”
TL magazine, May 2021

Enamels, Orange Head Office, France ©
“This work commissioned from the artist Guillaume Bottazzi for the Orange headquarters in Villeneuve d’Ascq is installed in the secondary atrium of the Orange Grand Stade building.”
Ministry of Culture, July 2020

Enamels, Shirokanedai, Tokyo ©
“The works of Guillaume Bottazzi invite the observer to recreate the work, not only through our interpretation of the signs but also through the modelling of space, or rather of spaces.”
Azart magazine, March 2010

Oil on raw linen, 3 meters high, Marseille, Côte d’Azur ©
“Guillaume Bottazzi’s oils on canvas are comforting […] there is warmth, softness and infinite subtleties in the nuances, the shading, the blurring.”
Maison & Jardins actuels magazine, December 2012

Backlit artworks ©
“These lighting creations give us space to breath and embody the artist’s connection with Japan where he has worked in since 2004.”
DARC magazine, January 2019

Painting on paper, Hokkaido, Japan ©
“Bottazzi’s paintings combine rounded forms and calming pastel colours intended to make a direct appeal to the senses.”
The Bulletin magazine, september 2016

Backlit artworks, Lyon, France ©
“When looking at this kind of painting, the form speaks for itself, and the spectator or the local resident can let themselves go to their elations and their dreams.”
Revue Urbanisme, October 2009
Guillaume Bottazzi and the joy of inhabiting
Guillaume Bottazzi – November 15th 2020
The in situ works of Guillaume Bottazzi reveal new environmental paradigms
Why having dreamlike spaces in our everyday spaces?
The in situ works of Guillaume Bottazzi modify our environment and cause new architectural paradigms to emerge.
For Gaston Bachelard, imagination constitutes the foundation of reason and perception: this is the reason why imagination takes precedence in the creation of the spaces we occupy, since – above all – we inhabit dreamlike spaces. Our imagination conditions our perceptions and our thoughts.
These poetic spaces are not places that exist in themselves. They are not an envelope in which we come to be buried and nor an objective container of elements. These poetic spaces nourish our creativity and stimulate our construction.
These in situ works create dynamic spaces, spaces inhabited by the living, always connected with the outside and the inside. These creations create spaces that transcend lines and utilitarian space.
Imaginary spaces
It is the concrete and matter that will reveal our dreams and the spirit of places. It is they that will stimulate a personal imagination; and in order to be able to dream, we must not rationalise.
For example, if we look at the building plans for a construction, we do not dream, but if we reinvent what we are looking at, we appropriate the site. To do this, we need to seek out anything unexpected in it so as to be able to inscribe the spaces we frequent into the register of our imagination.
Every landscape is an experience that connects with our imagination, and this imagination is not a passive daydream but takes shape in action, in the way a child walking along a line on his way to school pretends he is tiptoeing on the edge of a high precipice.
The spaces frequented nourish the passer-by with a form of unreality and make him dream.
Creating evolving spaces
The three-dimensionality of static spaces is an illusion.
New physics and quantum physics induce the idea that all space is evolutionary.
New physics calls into question the three-dimensionality of static spaces; this is the case of the “theory of relativity” whereby static space does not exist, but it is also the case of quantum physics for which things are no longer locatable.
New physics has revealed a new dynamic of space, where dream space is the construction of a dynamic space bringing the joy of inhabiting a given place.
It is a space that is constantly changing, an open space that is never closed, a space that evolves and surprises.
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