biography


eric tilburyEric Tilbury

Born in 1960, French nationality.

Lives in Lausanne, Switzerland and Bangkok, Thailand

Architect Diploma, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPF-L), Switzerland
Master in History of Arts, Université Charles-de-Gaulle, Lille, France
Ph.D. in Architecture, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Presently working as Professor of Architecture in Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Personal aesthetic researches were enriched by the study of geometrical art masters. Writings and paintings of Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Kasimir Malevitch figure as preliminary references. The Art Concret movement was also a main source of inspiration. It was represented by artists such as the Swiss painter-architect Max Bill, Gottfried Honnegger, Aurélie Nemours and François Morellet.

The “W(H)AT ROOF” exhibition, achieved from 2002 to 2004, was displayed in Bangkok, Silpakorn University Gallery, in January 2005.

A series of acrylic and oil paintings was completed from 1995 to 2002 and in 2007. They were presented in the “LYRITCH" exhibition at Plates-Bandes Galerie, Lausanne, in May 2007.

Two of his LYRITCH paintings were recently printed, using aquatint and silkscreen techniques.