Patrick Rimoux is a contemporary artist and engineer, who works primarily with new French technologies. As a light sculptor, Rimoux modulates light and uses it as an artistic medium. Known for his town monuments, he has also exhibited his work at the Galerie Baudoin Lebon in Paris, the Galerie Valérie Bach in Brussels, and the Matthieu Foss Gallery in Bombay.
A graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure with a technological education, Rimoux also trained as an engineer at the Beaux Arts in Paris, where he studied at the studio of Claude Viseux. Meeting with Henri Alekan for the project Paths of Light was an important step in his artistic career because it helped define light as his medium of choice.
Rimoux's projects are primarily urban sized; he works with light at the city level. Rimoux works with well-directed public spaces and architectural ensembles to integrate light into the urban landscape. He uses light reflection to make this integration look organic and natural.
Rimoux has worked on the Grand Place in Brussels, dresses the front of the French Embassy in New York City, and created the scenography of light around the Centre Pompidou-Metz.
Rimoux collaborated with the composer Louis Dandrel for the Garden of Sound and Light at La Borie, Limoges.
Rimoux produces light works for special events. Making himself the third component of staging, he accompanied his light dance performances as Cayenne in Dancing the City. He also illustrated the scene where Phaedra represented India alongside Astrid Bas and George Lavaudant.
Rimoux has participated in several festivals, such as the Eclectic Rocamadour and the Festival of the Word at Charity Sur Loire, where he created a work that showed the figure of Cardinal de Bernis.
Rimoux uses his knowledge of new technologies, innovative designs, and new lighting techniques, and theatrical light modulation to create his designs.
One such design was a light piece for the Freedom Towers in Soweto, South Africa. The sculpture, commissioned by Nelson Mandela, consists of five black concrete columns mingled with nine white concrete columns. Dimming carried on these surfaces creates the movement of colors, making a meaningful sculpture. Another of Rimoux's designs was lighting of the Rue de la Loi, where he created customized "poles of light".
His personal artistic work focuses on cinematography films that crystallize the question of revealing light. In France, he worked with the raw 35mm film material of Wim Wenders, Michael Haneke, and Akira Kurosawa. In 2010, exposure in the Baudoin Lebon gallery led him to work with the actress Sandrine Bonnaire.
While in India, staying at the guest house at the French Alliance and the Embassy of France in Delhi, Rimoux discovered the riches of Bollywood cinema, especially in regards to light and how it affixes to film, opening spaces that appear to be colored distillation of the atmosphere of the country. Rimoux was so taken with Bollywood that in 2011 and 2012 he exhibited several works at the exhibition of the India Art Fair in Delhi.
Lighting for the Ministry of Defence, Architecture by Nicolas Michelin, Balard, Paris, 2011
Permanent work for the cloister of the Benedictines of the city of Words, La Charité-sur-Loire, France, 2011, 70 m long video projection
Light scenography around the Centre Pompidou-Metz, France, 2010
Light scenography of the Cher Bridge for the new tramway, Tours, France, 2010
Lighting of Europe's Ring, Brussels, 2010
Survey for the Grand Place, Brussels, 2010
Lighting of the Euro Mediterranean Research Center & Ingémédia Institute. Architecture by Nicolas Michelin, Toulon, France, 2010
Light scenography for the glass partition of ARTEM. Architecture by Nicolas Michelin, Nancy, France, 2009
Survey for Brussels North, Brussels, 2009
Wharf & Place du Débarcadère, Saint Paul, La Réunion, France, 2009
Centre of the Francophony of America, 400 years of Québec, Québec, Canada, 2008
City Hall of Québec, 400 years of Québec, Québec, 2008
Brabant Bridge, Saint Josse, Belgium, 2007
Garden of the Lighting Sounds project, Cultural Centre, La Borie, France, 2007
Cayenne lightpole, Cayenne, French Guyana, 2005
Light survey for Cayenne, French Guyana, 2005
Freedom Towers, Soweto, South Africa, 2005
Sculpture for the commemoration of the Heysel tragedy, Brussels, 2005
Place de l'Albertine, Brussels, 2004
Nelson Mandela Bridge, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2003
Brussels lightpole, Rue de la Loi, Belgium, 2003
Argenton sur Creuse, France, 2003
Royal saltworks, survey, Arc et Senans, France, 2001
Boulevard Beaurivage, La Ciotat, France, 1999
Viaduct, Nevers, France, 1999
The cliff and fortress of Mornas, France, 1999
Boulevard du centenaire, Brussels, 1999
Brussels Exhibition Centre, Belgium, 1999
Summer Solstice, Ixelles, Belgium, 1998
Light paths on Maurice Utrillo Street. Montmartre, Paris, 1997
Light paths on Chevalier de la Barre Street, Montmartre, Paris, 1997
100 Years, 100 Directors, 100 Films, Brussels, 1996
Light path, Aignay le Duc, France, 1992
Funeral monument for Henri Langlois, Montparnasse, Paris, 1990
Temporary creations and events
Rangoli of Light, New Delhi, 2011
The Hundred Words of the Bernis Cardinal, Festival du Mot, La Charité-sur-Loire, France, 2011
Centenary of the Museum of Art and History of Geneva, Switzerland, 2010
150th anniversary of the French consulate in Québec, Canada, 2010
Phèdre de Sénèque, Scenography from Astrid Bas, Le Centquatre, Paris, France, 2010
Criée, son crépuscule, Autumn Festival in Normandy, Dieppe, France, 2009
Song of Songs, MoMA PS1, New York City, 2009
Payne Whitney Mansion, French American Cultural Exchange, 972 Fifth Avenue, New York City, 2009
Light scenography for Va vis, Norma Claire's choreography, Ivry, France, 2007
Dance the City, City Hall, Cayenne, French Guyana, 2007
Church Sainte Croix, Liège adorned with colors, Liège, Belgium, 2007
Palais des Princes Evèques, Liège adorned with colors, Liège, Belgium, 2007
Secret trail, Courtyard of the Palais des Princes Evêques, Liège, Belgium, 2006
Liège adorned with colours, Liège, Belgium, 2005
Dance the City, Cayenne, French Guyana, 2005
D'Amarante à Zinzolin, Sauroy Mansion, Paris, 2005
Dance the City, Cayenne, French Guyana, 2004
The Imaginary Gardens, Terrasson Lavilledieu, France, 2004
The Lighted Eclectics, 2,500 Souls, Rocamadour, France, 2004
Dance the City, Cayenne, French Guyana, 2003
Winter Delights, Grand Place, Brussels, 2003
Winter Delights, The Forest, Grand Place, Brussels, 2002
Winter Delights, The Meadow, Grand Place, Brussels, 2001
Le Plateau, Inauguration of the center for contemporary art F.R.A.C., Paris, 2002
Twice yearly festival of contemporary art, Nîmes, France, 2002
Love is sweet, Norma Claire's choreography, Beauvais, France. 2001
Installation in the undergrounds of Provins, France, 1995
Installations and exhibitions
Exhibition at the Matthieu Foss Galery, Mumbai, India, 2011
Map of the Light, scenography around the Centre Pompidou-Metz
Cyclopes, lightpoles, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, 2010
Elle's Appelle Sabine, from Sandrine Bonnaire, 35mm film, plexiglass, resin, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, 2010
Fantasy in Colors, Rythmetic from Norman McLaren, 35mm film, plexiglass, resin, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, 2010
Films 35 mm, resin, optical lens, Galerie Le Café Français, Brussels, 2009
Brussels New York, Photography exhibition, Galerie Le Café Français, Brussels, 2009
Brussels Sheep, Immersed ticket office, Congrès Train Station, Brusells, 2009
Installation with 35 mm films, Photography exhibition about the Grand Place, Congrès Train Station, Brussels, 2009
Pheadra in India, Film sculpture for a theater play by Astrid Bas and Georges Lavaudant, Delhi and Bombay, India, 2008
Piccolo Teatro: Archi 4, Plexiglass and LED spotlights, France, 2007, 1.40 x 1.80 m
Installation VUIT ND 2835N7712E P4848N220E TON, Louis Vuitton's exhibition room, Champs Elysées, Paris, 2006
Cage, 35 mm films, resin, Louis Vuitton space, Champs Elysées, Paris, 2006
exhibition «L Inde dans tous les sens». Louis Vuitton Space, Champs Elysées, Paris. 2006
Exhibition at the French Alliance of New Delhi, India, 2006
Installation with the 35 mm film of Le Cirque de Calder, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, 2005
L'homme Qui Rétrécit and Installation with the 35 mm film La Chambre Obscure, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, 2005
Reactograms for the EDF foundation, Paris, 2004
Funny Games, L'homme Qui Plantait des Arbres, Maadadayo, Bar le Duc, France, 2003
Installation with the 35 mm film Mortel Transfert by JJ Beineix, Bar le duc, France, 2003
Passage, Grand Palais, 400 x 200 x 300 cm, and Installation, Beaux Arts, 1300 x 70 x 70 cm, Paris, 1990
Odysée, sculpture for the Gan movie, Tunisie, 1989, 7 x 12 × 6 m