Pierre
Molinier
Born in 1900 in Agen (France), PIERRE MOLINIER, a fetishist and transvestite artist, was a stranger of worldwide notoriety. No book or exhibition about the body, or about gender fluidity, or sexual deviancy would be complete without a work by the man whose “genius” André Breton admired in a memorable essay of 1956.
Yet his work remains largely inaccessible. Pierre Molinier created astounding self-portraits, until the year 1976 when he committed suicide in Bordeaux by shooting himself in the mouth. Painted or photographed, extremely sophisticated in both staging and technique, his works span the entire spectrum of self-eroticism. Kamel Mennour first exhibited his work in 2000, and is now the President of the Comité Molinier, an association of experts representing the estate of the artist and perpetuating the legacy of his oeuvre.
2023
“Pierre Molinier. Questionner les corps et les genres”, Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MECA, Bordeaux, France
2017
“Pierre Molinier: Ce fut un homme sans mortalité”, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
2015
“The Temptations of Pierre Molinier”, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London
2010
“Pierre Molinier Œuvres Inédites”, Mennour, Paris
2005
“Je suis né homme-putain”, Mennour, Paris
“Une vie magique”, A l’enseigne des Oudin, Paris