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Arts Global
Sylvain Amic
Biography
Sylvain Amic is curator of the 19th, 20th century and contemporary art collections of the Fabre Museum, Montpellier. Born in 1967, he studied at the University of Nice (1984-7) where he obtained diplomas in Science, Chinese Languages and Civilisation, and Journalism. He then taught at the Ecole normale d'instituteurs de Nice, where his work focused on joint projects with Gambia. At the same time, until 1997, he continued his studies at the Lille and Aix-en-Provence Universities, and acquired a Master's in History of Art.
He then worked at the Ecole nationale du patrimoine in Paris before taking up his present position in Montpellier.
He has commissioned numerous exhibitions, including:
La Section d'or, fortune du cubisme
(Châteauroux, Montpellier, Hong-Kong, 2000)
Bonnard / Marquet, chefs-d'oeuvre du musée de Besançon
(Montpellier, 2001)
Riviera, capolavori della galeria d'arte moderna di Genova
(Montpellier, 2001)
Alain Clément 1996-2001
(Montpellier, Montbéliard, Neuchâtel, 2001)
Chantiers publics : François Morellet, Georges Rousse, Hugues Reip
(Montpellier, 2001)
Frédéric Bazille, rencontre en quinze tableaux
(Montpellier, 2001)
Made in USA, l'art américain de 1900 à 1950
(Rennes, Rouen, Lyon, Montpellier, 2002)
Claudio Parmiggiani, Sculptures d'ombre
(Montpellier, 2002)
Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet! Chefs-d'Suvre de la collection Bruyas
(Montpellier, Richmond, Williamstown, Dallas, San Francisco, 2003)
French paintings, masterpieces from Fabre museum
(Canberra, 2003)
Kupka
(Vaduz, Lausanne, Strasbourg, Montpellier, 2004)
Zao Wou-Ki, Hommages
(Montpellier, 2004)
French paintings from the Fabre museum
(Tokyo, Ibaragi, Yamanashi, Osaka, Nagasaki, 2005)
MC1, Montpellier-Chine, biennale d'art contemporain chinois
(Montpellier, 2005)
Les dessous du tableau, restauration publique d'une oeuvre de Louis Béroud (Montpellier, 2005)
Germaine Richier
(Montpellier, 2005)
Chefs d'Suvres du musée Fabre
(Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, 2006)
L'idéal classique dans la peinture française, du XVIIe au XIXe siècle
(Montpellier, 2006)
Future projects include:
Hommage à Jean Fournier, marchand d'art à Paris
(Montpellier, 2007)
L'Impressionnisme vu d'Amérique
(Montpellier, Grenoble, 2007)
Eve Gramatzki
(Montpellier, 2007)
Gustave Courbet
(Paris Grand Palais, New York Met., Montpellier Musée Fabre, 2008)
Sylvain Amic is author of the following publications:
Paysages de Nice, Villefranche, Beaulieu, du XVIIe au XXe siècle
(Nice, Gilleta, 2000)
Georges Rousse/Hugues Reip, Chantiers publics
(Marseille, Muntaner, 2001)
Claudio Parmiggiani
(Arles, Actes Sud, 2003)
He has also contributed to many books, including:
Le pays de Nice et ses peintres
(Nice, Académia Nissarda, 1998)
Les recueils de costume à l'usage des peintres
(Lyon, Revue d'histoire de l'art, 1999)
100 chefs-d'Suvre du musée Fabre
(Dijon, L'objet d'art, 2001)
Alain Clément, Immensité intime
(Arles, Actes Sud, 2001)
Maesta di Roma
(Rome, Electa, 2003)
French paintings from the Fabre museum
(Canberra, 2003)
"Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet!" The Bruyas collection from the Fabre museum, Montpellier (Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 2004)
Dominique Gauthier, ce que peindre veut dire
(Montpellier, 2004)
Zao Wou-ki: la quête du silence
(Paris, Somogy, 2004)
French paintings
(Tokyo, Yomiuri Shinbum, 2005)
Chefs d'oeuvres du musée Fabre
(Fondation de l'Hermitage, 5 continents, 2006)