Frédéric Emprou
(Nantes, 1978). Lives and works in Nantes.
Author, exhibition curator and independent art critic, he publishes in different collective works and contemporary art catalogues, writes regularly for the magazines Zérodeux and Irrévérent. Since 2001 he has contributed to Revue 303, arts, recherches et créations. In 2008, he started working as a chronicler for the R collective’s website www.collectifr.fr/. He has written in the first monographic catalogue by Annabelle Hulaut, as well as an article in Art contemporain, Dictionnaire sur Nantes [Contemporary Art, Dictionary on Nantes]. Recently he has published Sublime paysage for the exhibition Charles Coturel, Le paysage à l’époque du virtual [The Landscape in the Virtual Age] in Pad, Angers and One shot, l’image en archipel [One Shot, the Image in Archipelago].
He has taken part and collaborated in the residency and exhibition by Neal Beggs, Shady Grove, at the Paradise gallery, Nantes, and was the curator of the exhibition by Pascale Remita, Champs magnétiques [Magnetic Fields], Château d’Oiron, Centre des Monuments Nationaux, as well as the group show Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea with Neal Beggs, Marc Geneix, Hubert Marécaille, Michelle Naismith and Georgia Nelson at the Mélanie Rio Gallery, Nantes.
