Mickaël Doucet is a French painter. His oils on canvas open empty interiors onto a horizon — sea, volcanoes, palms — where architecture is always present in the background.
Geometric forms, brutalist structures, ornamental details and luminous flat colours: Mickaël Doucet builds compositions that are both rigorous and sensitive, nourished by Mid-Century Modern, twentieth-century design and the poetic thinking of Gaston Bachelard. Leaving the human figure aside, he brings architecture, nature and iconic objects into dialogue in silent spaces, touched by a gentle melancholy that invites us to look differently at the passing of time.
Galerie Diego Escobar has worked with him since 2021 and has devoted four solo exhibitions to him in Marseille — Le jeu des possibles (2021), Hanabi (2022), Entre-deux mondes (2024) and Le code a changé (2025) — and presents his work at international fairs, in Basel in 2026. His work is also shown in Paris (Galerie Virginie Louvet), Frankfurt (Raphaël Gallery) and Mexico.
2025
Poétique de l’espace , Raphaël Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
32 dias de Luz, Lux perpetua Art center, Merida, Mexico
Le code a changé , Diego Escobar Gallery, Marseille France
Le code a changé gallery ( collector house exhibition) Marseille, France
2024
Entre-deux mondes, Diego Escobar GALLERY, Marseille, France
Poétique de l’espace I, Virginie Louvet GALLERY, Paris France
2022
Hanabi (Feux d’artifices) Diego Escobar GALLERY, Marseille, France
2021
Les entre-temps, Galerie Virginie Louvet, Paris, France
Entrevoir, Boa Lab curation Marion Guggenheim, Lisbon, Portugal
Le jeu des possibles, Diego Escobar GALLERY, Marseille, France
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