Aimé Venel (born May 8, 1950) is a French painter and drawer who focuses on figurative and symbolist style. He creates his own style of figurative arts elegance that primarily lies between symbolist painting and expressionism art, closely related to romanticism (French:Figuration des temps nouveaux). He is a self-taught man whose artwork is influenced by women's beauty. Aimé Venel was a Scientologist for years, before withdrawing from the movement.
In 1972, Aimé Venel was introduced to Pierre Yves Trémois and thereafter he became Edouard Mac’Avoy’s student. Between 1974 and 1978, Aimé Venel was a part of Mac’Avoy’s workshop from where he learned his style and mastered his drawing skills. In 1975, he exhibited first personal collection in Barbizon. Between 1986 and 2000 he worked on a huge triptych (12metre by 3metre) called Pour le chant des oiseaux (For the birds song). This artwork was recognized as the road from the spirituality to materialism passing through the aestheticism to pay tribute to the woman. In 2001 he decorated Villa in Miami with some big paintings including Version Paradis (2mx3,90m), Terre Conquise (2metre by 2,70metre) and Aux sources de la musique (dyptich, 2metre by 2,7metre). He also worked on another triptych called Biothèque Evolution (81cmx2m) that reflects the evolution of mankind on earth and pays tribute to the scientific research.
Principal work
His principal work is characterized by lyric compositions and some of them are as follows:
2011: Les Amours Légendaires II
2004/2005: Contes et Légendes (Sleeping Beauty, Bluebeard, Ruy Blas and The Queen of Spain, Isis and Osiris, Le Miracle des Loups, Peter Pan, Le Rouge et le Noir, Amour et Psyché, Notre Dame de Paris
1998: La Musique
1997: Les Amours légendaires, (Romeo and Juliet, The Beauty and the Beast, Lancelot & Guenièvre, Pierrot & Colombine, Tristan & Iseult, The Minotaur, Hamlet & Ophelia, The Myth of Pygmalion, Orphée & Eurydice
1997: Venice and its carnival
Exhibitions
Aimé Venel has participated in following exhibitions.
2013: Idecor Art Gallery Switzerland, permanent exhibition
2012: Exhibition at Hôtel Lotti Paris “ Paris et les Amours Légendaires “
2011: Exhibition Galerie 104 L’Atelier du Peintre, Village Suisse, Paris
2011: Exhibition Lakind Fine Art, Santa Fé, New Mexico, USA, Hotel NH Atlanta, Bruxelles
2010: Exhibition Lakind Fine Art, Santa Fé, New Mexico, USA
2010: Exhibition Hôtel Horset Opéra, Paris, France
2009: Hôtel Le Lotti, Paris, France «Hommage à René Barjavel»,
2009: Hôtel NH Atlanta, Bruxelles, Belgique
2008: Hôtel Le Lotti, Paris, France
2008: Galerie Saint-Roch, Paris, France
2008: Le Colombier de Corvol, Nièvre, France
2008: Hôtel NH Atlanta (Bruxelles, Belgique)
2008: 4th China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair avec la Art64 Gallery
2008: Hôtel L’Horset Opéra, Paris, France
2008: Atom Space Gallery, Canton, Chine
2008: Galerie Princesse de Kiev, Nice, France
2008: Art64 Gallery, Canton, Chine
2008: Artexpo with la galerie Behr-Thyssen, New-York, USA
2007: Galerie Princesse de Kiev, Nice, France
2007:Mallorca Art Consulting, Baleares, Espagne
2007: Guangzhou International Art Fair avec la Art64 Gallery, Canton, Chine
2007: Galerie Arte Um Lugar ao Sol, Curitiba, Brésil
2007: Salon de la SNBA (Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts) au Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
2007: Art en Capital 2007 au Grand Palais, Paris, France
2007: Joy Gallery, Key West, Florida, USA
2007:Jolly Hotel du Grand Sablon, Bruxelles, Belgique
2007: Hôtel L’Horset Opéra, Paris, France
2006: Château des Tourelles, Plessis-Trévise, France
2006: Jolly Hotel Lotti, Paris, France
2005: Guest of Honor at the «83e Salon de Fontenay-le-Fleury», France
2005: Hôtel L’Horset Opéra, Paris, France
2005: Jolly Hotel Lotti, Paris, France
2005: Galerie mouvances, Place des Vosges, Paris, France
2004: Galerie Atezart, Avignon, France
2004: La Galerie, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2004: Galerie Lacydon, Marseille, France
1999: B and R Art Gallery, Californie, USA
1999: Galerie Gewehr, Allemagne
1999: Galerie du Chêne, Lausanne, Suisse
1998: Château de Clermont, Haute-Savoie, France
1998: Abbaye de Talloires, Haute-Savoie, France
1997: Italian Chamber of Commerce, Paris, France
1997: Hôtel Régina, Paris, France
1994: Galerie Art Monet, Guatemala
1993: Galerie AJL, Paris, France
1992: Galerie Marc Estel, Osaka Fu, Japon
1992: Galerie Guigné, Paris, France
1991: Galerie Sainte-Catherine, Honfleur, France
1990: Galerie Art Dépôt, Paris, France
1988: Galerie Calisto, Paris, France
1988: Société SOMAT, France
1987: Hôtel de l’Etrier, Crans-Montana, Suisse
1986: Galerie Aimé Venel in Montmartre, Paris, France
1986: Société Pernoderie, Créteil, France
1986: Garden’s Hotel, Lisieux, France
1986: Swissair Company, Genève, Suisse
1985: Casino de Pornichet, France
1984: Galerie du Musée, Paris, France
1984: Galerie des Colonies, Nantes, France
1983: Galerie Aurélia Antiquités, Milly-la-Forêt, France
1982: Galerie l’Oriflamme, Paris, France
1981: Galerie Dandoy, Belgique
1981: Guest of Honor at la Taverne aux poètes, Angers, France
1980: Festival international de Tarascon, France
1979: Galerie Michel Perrier, Châteaurenard, France
1979: Musée d’Yvoire, Haute-Savoie, France
1975: Barbizon, le village des peintres, à la Galerie Present Art, France
Awards and recognition
2001: Entry in the Drouot Cotation’s dictionary
1996: Prix du Maire (Parix Xe)
1991: Entry in the book "Prestige de la Peinture et de la Sculpture d'aujourd'hui dans le monde"
1989: Entry in the "Who's Who in international Art"
1985: Silver Medal by Salon des Artistes Français
1981: Honorable Mention by Salon des Artistes Français
