Guillaume BOTTAZZI

 Guillaume Bottazzi is a French artist born in 1971, lives in Brussels. He started his professional artist career in 1990 in Italy. In 1994, he received a government grant from DRAC with the attribution of a government Art Studio. He lived and worked in New York for several years in early 2000s, his work was exhibited at the Goldstrom gallery and the Annex gallery. In the United States, his work is to be found in the William Whipple Collection of Southwest State and in the Queen Shorough Collection. In 2004, he obtained an artist residency by the ART foundation in Tokyo.
His paintings have been exhibited since 2006 at Galerie Itsutsuji in Tokyo. cf: list of most notable galleries, Art Museum M. Itsutsuji has been order "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres" by France, from Jeu de Paume museum. This gallery has been introducing Support-Surfaces artists such as Claude Viallat, Louis Cane, Daniel Dezeuse, Jean-Pierre Pincemin, and other artists like Pierre Buraglio, Gérard Titus-Carmel and Jean-Michel Meurice.   Guillaume Bottazzi has realized thirty site-specific art works; he usually advocates the connection between architecture and art. His artwork meshes with the urban fabric, not only through its spatial context, but also through its undeniable social dimension. The work fits into the juxtaposition of community and space.