Factory VIII, 2020.
Part of the Silent Cartography series, this painting examines an industrial landscape at night, where artificial light, smoke, architecture and water transform a place of production into an unstable landscape.
The work belongs to a larger investigation of industrial territories and the traces left by human activity within the landscape.
《Factory VIII》、2020年。
「Silent Cartography」シリーズの一作です。夜の工業地帯を描き、人工の光、煙、建築、水面が、生産のための場所を不安定で独特な風景へと変えていく様子を捉えています。
本作は、工業地帯と、人間の活動が風景の中に残す痕跡を継続的に探る作品群の一つです。
Nicolas Depetris
French Painter & Architect HMONP
Nicolas Depetris is a French painter and architect HMONP working between Menton and Fukuoka. His series Silent Cartography examines what places retain: the traces of labour, construction, weather and time across industrial territories, cities, mountains and coastlines. Working primarily in oil, he rebuilds observed sites through displaced colour, compressed distance and architectural structure, placing human-made forms against slower geological time.
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Biography
Nicolas Depetris (b. 1984, Nice, France) is a French painter and architect HMONP working between Menton and Fukuoka. He studied painting and printmaking with Jean-Baptiste Sécheret from 2006 to 2013 and graduated from ENSAPB Paris-Belleville in 2015.
His practice develops from field observation and an archive assembled through long-distance travel across Europe and Asia. He works primarily in oil on canvas and panel, alongside drawing, monotype and wood engraving.
Solo exhibitions include TSUZUKU at FEELSEEN Ginza, Tokyo (2024); Le bâti et l'oubli in Menton (2022); Sept cents jours au Japon at SWAY Gallery, Paris (2018); and L'homme et le paysage at the Institut français du Japon - Kyushu, Fukuoka (2017).
His work has also been exhibited in France, Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom.
CV
- 2024 — Solo Exhibition — TSUZUKU
- Solo exhibition, FEELSEEN Ginza 4F Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
- 2023 — Group Exhibition — St John Library's Artists
- Gorbio Castle Museum, Gorbio, France.
- 2022 — Solo Exhibition — Le bâti et l'oubli
- St John's Library, Menton, France.
- 2020 — Group Exhibition — Depictions of Living
- The Art Pavilion, London, United Kingdom.
- 2020 — Group Exhibition — Environmental Crisis Exhibition
- Gerald Moore Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
- 2019 — Group Exhibition — ART METROPOLE
- ESIEE and Bâtiment Bienvenüe / IFSTTAR, Marne-la-Vallée, France.
- 2019 — Group Exhibition — Winter Show
- Zari Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
- 2019 — Group Exhibition — D Contemporary Painting Prize 2019
- D Contemporary Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
- 2018 — Solo Exhibition — Sept cents jours au Japon
- SWAY Gallery, Paris, France.
- 2018 — Group Exhibition — Artspring 2018
- Museum Pankow, Berlin, Germany.
- 2017 — Solo Exhibition — L'homme et le paysage
- Institut français du Japon - Kyushu, Fukuoka, Japan.
- 2017 — Group Exhibition — haletto
- haletto house, Kamakura, Japan.
- 2017 — Group Exhibition — BI NO KODO KYUSHU: Creator Archive vol.2
- Museum of Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan.
- 2017 — Solo Exhibition — Nicolas Depetris
- Crédit Mutuel Nice République, Nice, France.
- 2016 — Solo Exhibition — Nicolas Depetris
- Gallery Bin / Gallery Hashigo Zake, Fukuoka, Japan.
- 2016 — Group Exhibition — Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
- Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, on the occasion of Art Fair Asia Fukuoka 2016, Fukuoka, Japan.
- 2016 — Group Exhibition — La Foire de Monaco: Sur la route du Japon
- Ville de Nice stand, Chapiteau de Fontvieille, Monaco.
- 2016 — Solo Exhibition — Nicolas Depetris
- Espace Court Circuit, Nice, France.
- 2016 — Solo Exhibition — Nicolas Depetris
- Gallery Ori House, Fukuoka, Japan.
- 2014 — Solo Exhibition — Nicolas Depetris
- ACL Partners, Paris, France.
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Hakata, 2017.
Painted from my experience of Fukuoka, this work belongs to an ongoing exploration of cities, architecture and the traces left by human activity. The urban landscape is reconstructed through colour, structure and memory as part of the wider Silent Cartography series.






