Represented artist
Born
1995, 1996, France
Xolo Cuintle
Works and lives
Paris, France
Xolo Cuintle is an artist duo formed in 2020 by Romy Texier (1995, San Francisco) and Valentin Vie Binet (1996, Paris) who live in Paris and work in Aubervilliers. After graduating from Duperré School, the duo did a year-long residency at the Manufacture des Gobelins (2019 - 2020, Paris) as part of a studies programme with Mobilier national. The duo produce artworks that challenge boundaries between sculpture, furniture and décor. With their four hands, the duo create concrete sculptures and transform this solid and inert material into a fertile soil from which flourishes organic inspired ornamentation. Xolo Cuintle’s creations, meticulously assembled and arranged to inhabit each space, play on the objects that make up the topography of our daily life. The duo construct heterotopic spaces, on the threshold between dream and simulacrum. Within these deserted and petrified scenes, a new grammar of form that takes shape which, in layers, form an interpretation of time.
Xolo Cuintle have taken part in numerous group exhibitions in France and abroad. In 2021, the duo was invited by curator Joël Riff to exhibit with the painter Peter Marcasiano at Double Séjour (Clichy), and presented “Weeping Sun”, their first solo show at Sainte Anne Gallery (Paris). In 2023, Xolo Cuintle had a second solo show, “Current Upcoming Past”, at the Galerie Chloé Salgado (Paris). In the same year, they inaugurated the salon section of the DS Galerie (Paris) with a series of bas-reliefs entitled “1 and 1 is 3” and had their first solo exhibition at a fair with the gallery at Art-O-Rama (Marseille). As part of group shows, the duo has exhibited at several international fairs, including Alcova (Milan), Art Genève (Geneva), Artissima (Turin) and Unique (Paris and Savannah). Xolo Cuintle’s work joined the KADIST collections in 2020 and the CNAP’s in 2023. In 2024, the Xolo Cuintle duo will take part in the group exhibition “Revenir sur le présent” at the Collection Lambert (Avignon) and will take possession of “La Borne” with the POCTB.
“Est-ce celui-ci d’escargot qui renaît ou bien un autre”
22.05 — 13.07.2024
Group show
Art-O-Rama, Solo Show
31.08.23 — 03.09.2023
Fair
“1 and 1 is 3”
23.03.23 — 06.05.2023
Le salon
Solo show, La Borne du POCTB, Puiseaux
06 – 07.2024
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Group, CAC Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge
“lunulae #4”, curatedy by Thomas Maestro
25.05 – 06.07.2024
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Group show, Galerie Jousse Entreprise, Paris
“l’écorce des choses”,
23.03 – 04.05.2024
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Group show, Le Houloc, Aubervilliers
“Les aspirateurs sont des éléphants sans défense”, curated by Mathieu Buard and Tom Châtenet
12 – 16.04.2024
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Group show, Galerie John Ferrère, Paris
“Empreintes”, Curated by Emma O’Quigley
08.03 – 06.04.2024
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Group show, La Collection Lambert, Avignon
“Revenir du présent, regards croisés sur la scène actuelle”, La Collection Lambert invites POUSH
10.02 – 12.05.2024
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Solo show, Paris-B, Paris
“Sequel to 1450°C”, PB Project
27.01 – 09.03.2024
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Geste/s Magazine, December 2023
Portfolio Xolo Cuintle & Greg Carideo by Thomas Havet
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Group show, Galerie Provost-Hacker, Lille
“Agapes et autres délices…”, with Perrine Boudy, Xolo Cuintle, Bryce Delplanque, Clédia Fourniau, Louis Lanne, Etienne Pottier, Ugo Schildge, Nils Vandevenne. Curated by Marianne Dollo.
30.11.2023 – 27.01.2024
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Group show, CABIN, Berlin
“Nahual”, with Srijon Chowdhury, Xolo Cuintle, Eli de Haas, Roham Fayazi, Wolfgang Günther, Christian John Munks, Mateo Revillo, TJ Rinoski, Dennis Scholl, Nora Isabelle Zielinski
10.11.2023 – 20.01.2024
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Fair, Artissima, Turin
Group show, Sainte Anne Gallery
03.011 – 05.11.2023
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FigureFigure, September 2023
Conversation avec Xolo Cuintle
Read the magazine
Group show, POCTB, Orléans
“Éternel écho”, with Audrey Aumegeas, Ellande Jaureguiberry, Xolo Cuintle
28.09 – 29.10.2023
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Duo show, POUSH, Aubervilliers
“Point de fusion”, with Xolo Cuintle and Juan Gugger, Curated by Dayneris Brito
14.09 – 15.09.2023
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Fair, Trustees’ Garden, Savannah, GA, United States
“Unique Design X Savannah”,
01.06 – 04.06.2023
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Group show, Pal Project, Paris
“Faire fi, Faire feu”, curated by Myriam Brando
24.05 – 24.06.2023
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AD Collector, Décoration, Le grand guide 2023
Grand Gestures
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