Tony Quimbel
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Various publications:
→ TV interview France 3 Aquitaine France 2011
Publications in all the fantasy art fairs I participated in, double page article in the art magazine
→ "Univers des Arts" summer 2024
→ Art magazine "Loft and DECORATION" 2020
→Art magazine "ART and DESIGN" 2019.
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FRANCE:
Dunkirk: 1984 / 1989
→ Savings Bank, Coudekerque Town Hall, Dunkirk Theater.
→ Loon-Plage, Gravelines Arsenal.
Nice: 1989 / 2008
→ Hotel Negresco, Falicon Gallery, Park Inn Hotel.
Paris
→ Centre Beaubourg 1991
→ Animavie Exhibition 2010
→ Salon des Artistes Français, Grand Palais, Paris, 2013 Bronze Medal
→ Thuillier Gallery - Spring Exhibition 2018
→ Guest of Honor at the Coupvray Exhibition (2018)
→ Arts, Sciences and Letters of Paris 2019 Vermeil Medal, "Oil Painting" category
Magrie
→ Art Comes to Magrie, 9th edition 2010: First Prize, Oil Painting
Toulouse
→ International Arts and Letters Competition 2010 Toulouse: First Prize, Painting
→ Arts and Letters Competition 2017 Toulouse: Thuillier Gallery Prize, Paris
Amiens
→ Guest of distinction from the Somme Departmental Council
→ Rotary Club and European Artists (2021)
Aix-en-Provence Vienna
→ Salon Déclic 2022-2023
→ People's Choice Award
→ Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat
→ Salon of Imaginary and Fantastic Art 2025
International:
BELGIUM:
→ Mouscron / Kortrijk / Ostend (1987)
Principality of ANDORRA:
→ Hotel Sport Hermitage/Soldeu (2012)
SWITZERLAND:
→ Swiss Art Space Gallery, Lausanne (2019)
→ Director and Professor of Visual Arts at the Cappelle-la-Grande School of Fine Arts (Nord) from 2012 to 2016.
→ Oil painting instructor at the Amicale Laïque de Montignac, since 2016.
→ Visual Arts instructor at the Azerat School of Fine Arts, since 2021.
→ Visual Arts instructor at the Peyrignac School of Fine Arts, 2022.
→ Local representative for the Dordogne region of Arts, Sciences and Letters of Paris, since 2021.
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→ 446 Salon des Artistes Français
→ Grand Palais, Paris, 2013: Bronze Medal.
→ Arts Sciences et Lettres de Paris, 2019: Vermeil Medal, "Oil Painting" category.
→ Art Comes to Magrie, 9th edition, 2010: First Prize, Oil Painting.
→ International Arts and Letters Competition 2010, Toulouse: First Prize, Painting.
→ Arts and Letters Competition 2017, Toulouse: Thuillier Gallery Prize, Paris.
→ Aix-sur-Vienne Salon Déclic 2022-2023 People's Choice Award
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Detailed video explanations of my main works are available here:
→https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lBsMafO-18Personal website:
→www.tonyquimbel.comDrouot Art Price Guide website:
→http://quimbel.artistes-cotes.com/Saatchi Art website (USA):
→https://www.saatchiart.com/all?query=tony%20quimbel
I am an oil painter inspired by the Romantic masters of the 19th century.
I am drawn to the surrealist style, following in the footsteps of Salvador Dalí, whom I particularly admire.
After seven years of study at the Dunkirk School of Fine Arts (Flemish School - France), I studied privately for two years with Xavier Degans (a student of Salvador Dalí).
Since then, I have been working on creating medium-sized oil paintings on canvas. My themes include Ancient themes (Prometheus, Orpheus, etc.), works committed to respecting the planet and the living world (The Tree of Devis, A Tort et Adore, The Abyss, The Jewel, etc.), and ancestral symbolism (Inn Yang, Platonic Solids, Eden 2, Merlin's Tomb, The Grimoire, Avalon, Advaita Vedanta: The Temptation of Eve, etc.).
“Like the alchemist who, in the depths of night, melts stone again and again… I seek to achieve the “Great Work,” the work that makes us immortal, that transcends time.
Even if it is undoubtedly unattainable, the desire is fundamental and represents a goal that everyone should aspire to, in order to give meaning and unwavering motivation to our all-too-brief lives.”
I am an endless admirer of the wondrous beauty of nature, and I try to understand it from a holistic and tantric perspective. My painting attempts to express this as best as possible, inviting the viewer to enter the canvas and simply merge with it with pleasure.
Recently, I have taken a more committed approach, faced with the urgent need to safeguard our beautiful planet, which is suffering and which it is more than time to respect and save from our folly, for the consequence will be simple… our extinction.
Paintings like "The Birth of the Mother Goddess" and "The Vestal Virgin at Her Bath" express the necessary return to our lost androgynous being. The masculine principle, Yang, has dominated everything for nearly 2000 years and explains the drift of our societies. The Jewel has a double meaning: our Earth was this Jewel, and could become so again. It is a proposal to change the egregore of mental pollution that surrounds the planet. So let us quickly change our thoughts, our words, and our actions and rediscover the "original Jewel."
Online, symbolism is my preferred realm (Platonic Solids, Eden 2, Merlin's Tomb, The Grimoire, Muladhara...). Symbols are guides, imbued with wisdom since the dawn of time. Overexploited and overexposed, they leave us, wrongly, indifferent today.
For my part, I think it is becoming useful, even necessary, to show them from a new angle, in order to challenge us in their profound meaning, to extract their timeless essence, and to find the message adapted to our time.
