Didier Mencoboni is an artist and painter born in Guingamp (Brittany) in 1959. He lives and works in Ivry-sur-Seine and is represented by the Eric Dupont (Paris) and Oniris (Rennes) galleries. After studying at the Quimper School of Fine Arts, Didier Mencoboni boarded at the French Academy in Rome, at the Villa Medici, from 1990 to 1991. He was awarded the Fiacre Scholarship (Ministry of Culture) for a trip to Iceland in 1994, and received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation award (New York) in 1999. Now a teacher at the ENSA Bourges, Didier Mencoboni has regularly exhibited from the start of the 1980s in France, Europe and the United States. His works have largely entered French public collections. In 2021/2022, Didier Mencoboni presented La Couleur cinq fois in Mouans-Sartoux, as part of a CNAP commission for the design of temporary and reactivable works for the public space.
Resolutely colourful and abstract, Mencoboni's works are the result of reflection on the occupation and overspilling of space. For him, painting is from the frame, but tends to escape it – whether in his studio work or in the volume, the mobile or the installation.
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