Self taught artist, was born in1959 in Brussels, Belgium. He is the son of a political prisoner, jailed for years during the 1950s due to his refusal to participate in the French-Algerian War of Independence. Blanckart’s other occupations have included working in a rennet factory, as a docker in fishing ports, homecare nurse for people with AIDS.
He is also a certified plumber. He participated in his first exhibition at age 30, in Nice, France, in a group show at The Villa Arson. He has exhibited in the US and internationally including, FIAC 05 and 07 in Paris, France; MAMCO, Geneva and Volta, Basel in Switzerland; The Royal Museum of Toronto Canada, The Swiss Institute-Contemporary Art, NY, NY 2003 & 2005. He is represented by Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels; Loevenbruck Gallery, Paris, Gallery Guy Bärtschi, Geneva.
Blanckart creates life sized figures from pop and high culture out of everyday materials: tape, cardboard, Kraft paper. Through these basic materials he constructs figures with exaggerated characteristics, making revelations about their personas and what they represent.
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Blanckart, Olivier
The Remix Koolhaas (after August Sander, The Architect, 1926)
Date: 2008 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Portrait Technique: Sculpture
Blanckart, Olivier
The Remix Saigon (Saigon-Genève)
Date: 1998 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Other/Unknown Technique: Sculpture
Blanckart, Olivier
Me as... Young Picasso
Date: 1982 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Self Portrait Technique: Other/Unknown
Blanckart, Olivier
Half Raide, Pute reification de l'Etat Ire
Date: 2009 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Portrait Technique: Sculpture
Blanckart, Olivier
E Che Homo (After Freddy Alborta, 1967)
Date: 1999 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: History Technique: Sculpture
Blanckart, Olivier
PostPop 1 : XXth Century Art Camp (After P. Blake)
Date: 2000 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Portrait Technique: Sculpture
Blanckart, Olivier
Shaburov as... Rodtchenko's Mom
Date: 2005 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Portrait Technique: Photo
Blanckart, Olivier
Me as... Chuck Norris
Date: 2004 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Portrait Technique: Computer print
Blanckart, Olivier
Shiva (After A. Warhol's Triple Elvis)
Date: 1998 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Portrait Technique: Sculpture
Blanckart, Olivier
Stairway To H... (detail)
Date: 2003 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: History Technique: Sculpture
Blanckart, Olivier
Ali Sallal Abu Graib
Date: 2007 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: History Technique: Sculpture
Blanckart, Olivier
Assanuma (After Yasushi Nagao, Tokyo 1960)
Date: 1998 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: History Technique: Sculpture
Blanckart, Olivier
Andy (After Richard Avedon)
Date: 2002 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Portrait Technique: Sculpture
Blanckart, Olivier
La Merdlumanité/The Great Humanishit
Date: 2005 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Other/Unknown Technique: Installation