Emmanuel Chapalain lives and works at Pornichet, France.
As he was teenager, he helped his father photographer with his two brothers for shootings, film developments and stamping black and white until large formats stamps in the dark room. During summertime, Emmanuel loved to sell his father's photographies at the family gallery, Photothèque Les Goëlands, in a very old tide mill built in 1375, in the little harbour of Ploumanac'h.
1981-1984 learned Graphics Arts in Rennes.
1986-1990 worked at the family Shipyard in Le Crouesty Harbour.
1993 created his first sculptures, marine animals, recycling old pallets, making wood forms covered with used aluminium sheets; his idea was that the marine animals défend themselves with armours against destructive humans.
1994 first exhibition at Monalisa Motorsport Gallery, Monaco.
1998 collective exhibition at The Musée Océanographique of Monaco.
2005 was invited to show his art works in Sardinia. He met the Count Luigino Donà Dalle Rose, from a ancian family of Venice,founder with his brother Niccolo of the famous Marina of Porto Rotondo in 1964.
2006 exhibited on the Perini Navi regatta, Porto Rotondo. He met Thomas J. Perkins, owner of the
Maltese Falcon sailing yacht,selling him a 160 cm Silver Shark sculpture to decorate his vessel. In that same year, count Donà Dalle Rose asked him to imagine a giant mosaic in the main street of Porto Rotondo,
the Via del Molo.
2007 inauguration of the
Catena Alimentare del Mare, a never done artistic 140 meters pavement; a giant white shark,a hammerhead hark, tunas, Swordfish and a school of little fishes, all made of stones from Sardinia, the eyes were ordered to notorious Davide Salvadore Glass Studio from Murano.
2008-2009 exhibition at Louise Alexander Gallery, Porto Cervo.
2010 exhibition at Arista Gallery Cannes.
2013 Lisca a 9,50 meters fishbone stone sculpture was immersed in the seabed with other sculptures for a new underwater museum, the MuMArt, in Golfo Aranci, Sardinia.
2016 designed another mosaic,
Mocha Dick, in Porto Rotondo; a 15 meters sperm whale hunting giants squids, made in stainless steel and stone pavement, with the collaboration of Ayllòn Architects, Olbia.
Emmanuel begins now tu use his riveted aluminium sculptures as photography subjects, in landscapes, underwater, with film cameras and black and white films.
