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Born in 1975,
Charles Fréger is a graduate of the Rouen Art
School. He has devoted himself to the
poetic and anthropological representation of social groups such as athletes,
school children, the armed forces, etc.
His work
offers a reflection upon the image of contemporary youth.
Charles
Fréger is also the founder of the artistic community Piece of Cake (www.pocproject.com)
and of the POC publishing house.
Diplôme
national supérieur d’expression plastique, Graduate degree in Fine Art.
(Ecole
régionale des beaux-arts de Rouen), June 2000
Photographic
Portraits and Uniforms:
A series of
portraits taken within a collective environment requiring a uniform dress code:
cadets from the Salon-de-Provence Air Force school, Scouts, French Navy,
football supporters clubs, English Secondary schools, Technical Colleges and
Majorettes clubs...
Faire face — May 1999, Clubs —
July 1999
Portraits of young individuals
wearing different types of uniforms.
(French Air Force, Majorettes,
Scouts, Football Club Supporters)
De l’herbe— September 1999
Portraits of middle class
families from a small town, taken in their gardens.
Protocole — October 1999
Portraits of young volunteers in
a pharmaceutical clinic, taken during a medical protocol.
3741, Les Tabliers— December 1999
Portraits of workers on an
assembly line in a motor factory.
Majorettes —
February 2000 - July 2001
Portraits of the entire
Majorette assembly from the Nord-Pas-de-Calais.
Water-polo —
March 2000
Portraits of swimmers after
training.
Pattes blanches —
May 2000
Portraits of
students in the white smocks of l’école nationale d’industrie
laitière in Poligny (Jura).
Miss — August 2000
Portraits of a selection of
beauty contestants, before the competition.
Notre-Dame— November - December 2000
Portraits of the pupils of a
Catholic school in Norwich, England.
Camouflages — January 2001
Portraits of young recruits from
a French Navy artillery regiment.
Liteau — February - April 2001
Portraits of future chefs,
cooks, waiters and wine waiters.
Sagesfemmes — March - June 2001
Portraits
of student midwives from the maternity in Rouen.
Légionnaires
— work in progress
Portraits of young legionnaires
and sappers.
Steps — August 2001 - February 2002
Portraits of synchronised
skaters in Helsinki.
Glőgg — December 2001
Portraits taken during la Sainte-Lucie
in a secondary school in the suburbs of Stockholm.
Merisotakoulu— January 2002
Portraits of young sailors from
Finland.
Sihuhu— August 2002
Portraits of Hungarian Pioneer
scouts.
Les hommes verts — March
2002 - April 2003
Portraits of road sweepers in
Paris.
Bleus de travail —
January 2002 - May 2003
Portraits of polytechnic
students.
Trampoline
— April 2003
Portraits of gymnasts from a
trampolining club.
Rikishi — February 2002 –
September 2003
Portraits of young sumo
wrestlers.
LUX— February 2002 – May 2004
Portraits of the youth of
Luxembourg.
Itzas’—
February 2004
Portraits of the Itza’
population in Guatemala.
The
Queen’s
Guard —
March 2004
Portraits of Grenadiers during
the changing of the guard in London.
Menti
— April 2004
Portraits at the Moscow Police
Academy.
Museum of
Modern Art, Luxembourg.
Commission
for a series of portraits featuring the youth of Luxembourg.
Caisse des Dépôts et
Consignations / Centre Photographique de Haute-Normandie /
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de Haute-Normandie.
Bleu de
travail — Commission for a series of
portraits of students wearing their overalls within the industrial training
sites of the Normandy region.
Town of
Ferrare — May 2001 – June 2002
Commission
for a series of portraits of adolescents during the ‘Palio
de Ferrare.’
Centre photographique de Cherbourg — August – September 2002.
Commission for
a series of portraits within the Cherbourg Arsenal.
Festival des Arts de la mode de Hyères —
April 2003.
Commission
for a series of portraits of gymnasts in a trampolining club from the south of
France.
Festival international de la Mode de Singapore —
March 2002
Commission
for a series of portraits in diverse settings: « foodcenter »,
« face of the future »,
Jean-Paul Gauthier exhibition.
Boston
Consulting group — June 2003
Commission
for a series of portraits of Consultants (“Matière grise”).
Festival photographique de Clermont Ferrand —
May 2004
Commission
for a series of portraits of wrestlers belonging to a club in Clermont-Ferrand.
Centre régional
photographique de Haute-Normandie
May – June 2000
Galerie P,
Bruxelles, Belgium
15th
February – 28th April 2001
Ecole
des beaux-arts, Tours, France
8th March
– 20th April 2001
Galerie
du Bellay, Rouen, France
24th
April – 19th May 2001
Festival International des Arts de la Mode, Hyères, France
27th
– 30th April 2001
FRAC
Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-les-Rouen, France
April
– June 2001
Galerie
779, Paris, France *
3rd
May – 29th June 2001
Va y avoir du sport, exposition-colloque, Galerie “Les filles du Calvaire”
Paris, France
October 2001
Galerie
Pennings, Eindhoven, Holland *
October
– November 2001
Mois de la photographie, Cherbourg-Octeville, France
(diaporama “de François Kollar à Charles Fréger”)
November
2001
Rencontres
photographiques de Lorient, France *
9th
November – 16th December 2001
Centre culturel français, Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany *
January
– February 2002
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France *
January – Feburary 2002
Galerie 779,
Paris, France
January – February 2002
Galerie 14/16
Verneuil, Paris, France *
May
2002
Galerie du Château d’eau, Toulouse, France
(produced
for “le printemps de Septembre“)
May
2002
Mois
de la photographie, Cherbourg, France
November
2002
Mois
de la photographie de Cherbourg-Octeville, France
November 2002
Galerie P, Bruxelles, Belgium
November – December 2002
Workshop “Piece
of cake,”
Rouen, France
November
2002
Galerie Hippolyte, Helsinki (Finlande) *
January 2003
Centre Photographique de Oulu (Finlande) *
February – Mars 2003
Galerie Poller, Frankfurt (Allemagne)
March – April 2003
Festival International des Arts de la Mode, Villa Noaille
Hyères
April – May 2003.
Le Plateau, FRAC Ile de France
“des
voisinages“ May 2003.
Galerie du Pole Image, Rouen*
October – November 2003
Artothèque de Caen*
October – November 2003
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen*
January
– April 2004
Stip
Gallery, Amsterdam (Hollande)*
February 2004
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne (Suisse)
“Je t’envisage“ February – April 2004
Culturguest, Lisbonne (Portugal)
“Made in France,“ February 2004
Galerie Nouvelles Images, La Haye (Hollande)
April
– July 2004
L’imagerie,
Lannion (France)
Estivales photographiques, June – September 2004
Hayward
gallery, London (Angleterre)
“About face“ June – September 2004
* solo exhibitions
Book co-published with la Société Française de Photographie.
Preface by Philippe Arbaïzar,
director for, 20th Century Photography at the Cabinet des Estampes,
and Photography at the National Library of France.
Éditions
779 - Paris. June 2001.
Book
combining one hundred and forty portraits from the Majorettes series.
Preface by
Didier Mouchel, director of the photography gallery of Pole Image de Haute
Normandie.
Éditions Léo Scheer -
Paris. January 2002.
Book
combining seventy portraits from the Legionnaires series.
Preface by
Raphaëlle Stopin.
Éditions 779/Château d’eau - Paris. September
2002.
Book
combining forty portraits of workers at the Arcelor factories.
Preface by
Pierre Etschegoyan.
Ponctuation éditeur -
Nantes. October 2002.
Book combining
sixty portraits of synchronised skaters from Finland.
Text by Rosa
Liksom
Le point du jour éditeur/
POC éditions. December 2002.
Text by Jean-Paul Curnier
Éditions Léo Scheer
October 2003
Preface
by Marc Donnadieu
POC éditions
September 2003
Preface
by Chihiro Minato
POC éditions
December 2004