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, 2011Permanent work for the cloister of the Benedictines of the city of Words, La Charité-sur-Loire, France, 2011, 70 m long video projectionLight scenography around the Centre Pompidou-Metz, France, 2010Light scenography of the Cher Bridge for the new tramway, Tours, France, 2010Lighting of Europe's Ring, Brussels, 2010Survey for the Grand Place, Brussels, 2010Lighting of the Euro Mediterranean Research Center & Ingémédia Institute. Architecture by Nicolas Michelin, Toulon, France, 2010Light scenography for the glass partition of ARTEM. Architecture by Nicolas Michelin, Nancy, France, 2009Survey for Brussels North, Brussels, 2009Wharf & Place du Débarcadère, Saint Paul, La Réunion, France, 2009Centre of the Francophony of America, 400 years of Québec, Québec, Canada, 2008City Hall of Québec, 400 years of Québec, Québec, 2008Brabant Bridge, Saint Josse, Belgium, 2007Garden of the Lighting Sounds project, Cultural Centre, La Borie, France, 2007Cayenne lightpole, Cayenne, French Guyana, 2005Light survey for Cayenne, French Guyana, 2005Freedom Towers, Soweto, South Africa, 2005Sculpture for the commemoration of the Heysel tragedy, Brussels, 2005Place de l'Albertine, Brussels, 2004Nelson Mandela Bridge, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2003Brussels lightpole, Rue de la Loi, Belgium, 2003Argenton sur Creuse, France, 2003Royal saltworks, survey, Arc et Senans, France, 2001Boulevard Beaurivage, La Ciotat, France, 1999Viaduct, Nevers, France, 1999The cliff and fortress of Mornas, France, 1999Boulevard du centenaire, Brussels, 1999Brussels Exhibition Centre, Belgium, 1999Summer Solstice, Ixelles, Belgium, 1998Light paths on Maurice Utrillo Street. Montmartre, Paris, 1997Light paths on Chevalier de la Barre Street, Montmartre, Paris, 1997100 Years, 100 Directors, 100 Films, Brussels, 1996Light path, Aignay le Duc, France, 1992Funeral monument for Henri Langlois, Montparnasse, Paris, 1990Temporary creations and events
Rangoli of Light, New Delhi, 2011The Hundred Words of the Bernis Cardinal, Festival du Mot, La Charité-sur-Loire, France, 2011Centenary of the Museum of Art and History of Geneva, Switzerland, 2010150th anniversary of the French consulate in Québec, Canada, 2010Phèdre de Sénèque, Scenography from Astrid Bas, Le Centquatre, Paris, France, 2010Criée, son crépuscule, Autumn Festival in Normandy, Dieppe, France, 2009Song of Songs, MoMA PS1, New York City, 2009Payne Whitney Mansion, French American Cultural Exchange, 972 Fifth Avenue, New York City, 2009Light scenography for Va vis, Norma Claire's choreography, Ivry, France, 2007Dance the City, City Hall, Cayenne, French Guyana, 2007Church Sainte Croix, Liège adorned with colors, Liège, Belgium, 2007Palais des Princes Evèques, Liège adorned with colors, Liège, Belgium, 2007Secret trail, Courtyard of the Palais des Princes Evêques, Liège, Belgium, 2006Liège adorned with colours, Liège, Belgium, 2005Dance the City, Cayenne, French Guyana, 2005D'Amarante à Zinzolin, Sauroy Mansion, Paris, 2005Dance the City, Cayenne, French Guyana, 2004The Imaginary Gardens, Terrasson Lavilledieu, France, 2004The Lighted Eclectics, 2,500 Souls, Rocamadour, France, 2004Dance the City, Cayenne, French Guyana, 2003Winter Delights, Grand Place, Brussels, 2003Winter Delights, The Forest, Grand Place, Brussels, 2002Winter Delights, The Meadow, Grand Place, Brussels, 2001Le Plateau, Inauguration of the center for contemporary art F.R.A.C., Paris, 2002Twice yearly festival of contemporary art, Nîmes, France, 2002Love is sweet, Norma Claire's choreography, Beauvais, France. 2001Installation in the undergrounds of Provins, France, 1995Installations and exhibitions
Exhibition at the Matthieu Foss Galery, Mumbai, India, 2011Map of the Light, scenography around the Centre Pompidou-MetzCyclopes, lightpoles, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, 2010Elle's Appelle Sabine, from Sandrine Bonnaire, 35mm film, plexiglass, resin, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, 2010Fantasy in Colors, Rythmetic from Norman McLaren, 35mm film, plexiglass, resin, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, 2010Films 35 mm, resin, optical lens, Galerie Le Café Français, Brussels, 2009Brussels New York, Photography exhibition, Galerie Le Café Français, Brussels, 2009Brussels Sheep, Immersed ticket office, Congrès Train Station, Brusells, 2009Installation with 35 mm films, Photography exhibition about the Grand Place, Congrès Train Station, Brussels, 2009Pheadra in India, Film sculpture for a theater play by Astrid Bas and Georges Lavaudant, Delhi and Bombay, India, 2008Piccolo Teatro: Archi 4, Plexiglass and LED spotlights, France, 2007, 1.40 x 1.80 mInstallation VUIT ND 2835N7712E P4848N220E TON, Louis Vuitton's exhibition room, Champs Elysées, Paris, 2006Cage, 35 mm films, resin, Louis Vuitton space, Champs Elysées, Paris, 2006exhibition «L Inde dans tous les sens». Louis Vuitton Space, Champs Elysées, Paris. 2006Exhibition at the French Alliance of New Delhi, India, 2006Installation with the 35 mm film of Le Cirque de Calder, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, 2005L'homme Qui Rétrécit and Installation with the 35 mm film La Chambre Obscure, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, 2005Reactograms for the EDF foundation, Paris, 2004Funny Games, L'homme Qui Plantait des Arbres, Maadadayo, Bar le Duc, France, 2003Installation with the 35 mm film Mortel Transfert by JJ Beineix, Bar le duc, France, 2003Passage, Grand Palais, 400 x 200 x 300 cm, and Installation, Beaux Arts, 1300 x 70 x 70 cm, Paris, 1990Odysée, sculpture for the Gan movie, Tunisie, 1989, 7 x 12 × 6 m
