Joël Andrianomearisoa

Several works by the artist are characterized by their monumental and poetic character as the Labyrinth of passion, a diptych composed of a large piece of white and black silk paper for which Joël Andrianomarisoa became the first non-Spanish artist to receive in 2016 the Arco Madrid Audemars Piguet prize or I Have Forgotten the Night for the Pavilion of Madagascar at the Venice Biennale.[9]

For several months, a giant neon designed by the artist overlaid its message "Here we carry the dreams of the world" the front of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.[10]

In 2021, he inaugurates in his native city of Antananarivo, an impressive sculpture on the Avenue of Independence. This sculpture is the first of a series that the artist will try out on several territories.[11]

In 2022, as part of Mondes Nouveaux, the artist unveils Au rythme de nos désirs dansons sur la vague du temp, a sculpture created for the future Cité Internationale de la Francophonie at the Château de Villers-Cotterêts, inaugurated by the french Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot.[12]

Joël Andrianomearisoa's favourite techniques include textiles and drawing.[3]

In 2022 in Milan and at the Château de Chaumont, with Les herbes folles du vieux logis, Joël Andrianomearisoa makes a nod to the Malagasy poet Maurice Ramarozaka, from whom he borrows the title of a collection of poems for a series of pastel drawings, large textile paintings and smaller designs based on the assembly of gold silk thread.[8][13]

In 2019, he was invited by Dior to make his own version of the Lady Dior bag, which, for this occasion, took the name Lady Dior Art. He worked on the entire environment of the Lady Dior Art, from its lining to its packaging. He says he has created two versions of the object that he will name "The labyrinth of Lady Dior".[14]

In the continuity of their exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Joël Andrianomearisoa was invited to participate in Dior's first exhibition in the Middle East, at the M7 in Doha (Qatar), "Christian Dior : Designer of Dreams", by realizing paintings of scarves of the house cut out and sewn on a wall of 20 meters x 10 meters by using as raw material scarves of the house.[15]

In 2021, Joël Andrianomearisoa became the seventh artistic sponsor of the A.S. Velasca.[16][17] The same year, with the perfume house Diptyque, as part of the 60th anniversary of the brand, he collaborated with Olivia Giacobetti, nose of the brand, on a particular fragrance and pays tribute to the city of Paris and the number 34 of the 34 Boulevard Saint-Germain, birthplace of the house.[18]

In 2022, he participated in the edition of a Moleskine notebook.[19]

To reach a wider public, Joël Andrianomearisoa created the Sentimental Products, "conceptual objects" mixing art, design and fashion, exclusive creations, ready-made, objects carrying in them the "nobility of the everyday". The artist conceives forms through which he makes emotions speak. He treats the themes of sentimentality, melancholy, sadness or desire: "These are extremely complex things that are in our hearts, which are not palpable but very universal. I am always in a permanent quest for the materialization of emotions."[20][3][21]