Titouan Lamazou decided that he would be an artist at the age of eleven.
After a short stint at the Beaux-Arts, he left at the age of 18.
His meeting with Éric Tabarly led him to pursue a brief but highly publicized professional maritime career. He published his first travel accounts in the eighties and resumed his artistic wanderings at the end of his victory in the first Vendée Globe in 1990.
His travels have been the subject of numerous publications (Éditions Gallimard) and museum exhibitions (Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Musée de l'Homme, Fondation Cartier, Oca de Sao Paulo, Musée du quai Branly, Musée de Tahiti et des îles, Musée d'art contemporain
des Sables d'Olonne -MASC,...)
Titouan travels the five continents to meet women at the dawn of the twenty-first century. This tribute to beauty, Zoé-Zoé, Femmes du Monde, has evolved over the course of his travels into a plea denouncing the many faces of misogyny in this world.
UNESCO has found the echo of its values in the humanistic dimension and cultural diversity that characterizes this approach and as such, appointed Titouan UNESCO Artist for Peace.
From 2019, after many terrestrial peregrinations (especially in Africa), Titouan returned to the ocean and the islands of the Pacific that had marked him so much during his first long-distance sailings. He multiplied his stays in Polynesia, where he revisited his dream of a Bateau-Atelier.
His work now takes up the cause of the preservation of living things.
1955
Birth in Casablanca.
1968
Adolescence in Tunisia.
Tunisa. Gouache on paper, 50 x 65 cm
1971-1973
The painter and navigator Yvon Le Corre was his drawing teacher at the high school in Marseille.
Attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Marseille, then in Aix-en Provence.
Marseille, Oil on paper, 65 x 50 cm
Saint Lucia. Ink and watercolour on paper, 40 x 30 cm
1976-1979
World tour on board Éric Tabarly’s Pen Duick VI.
Illustration of the Manoeuvring Guide
Les Goélettes d’Amérique sketchbooks, from the northeast coast of the USA and Canada.
Lunenburg, Canada
Ink on paper, 50 x 65 cm
1982-1984
One-year stay in a Berber village in Morocco’s High Atlas.
Publication of Sous les toits de terre and Un hiver berbère (republished by Gallimard: Onze lunes au Maroc – 2012)
Morocco. Ink on paper, 40 x 30 cm
1985-1991
Ocean races on board the Écureuil d’Aquitaine I and II.
- Winner of the Cape Town-Sydney (1986)
- 2nd in the BOC Challenge (1986-1987)
- Winner of the Québec-St Malo (1988)
- Winner of the Vendée Globe (1989-1990)
- Winner of the Route du Rhum (1990)
- Named Ocean-Racing World Champion
Photo enhanced gouache, 50 x 65 cm
1994-2001
Artistic wanderings around the world. Production of Carnets de Voyage 1 (Gallimard 1998) and Carnets de voyage 2 (Gallimard 2000)
Exhibition Composition of travels at the Musée des Arts décoratif in Paris.
Exhibition Desert, Fondation Cartier.
One year in residence in Kinshasa DRC and publication of Titouan in Congo, 2001
Stopovers in Paris, Brussels and London with the singer Renaud for the production of the book Boucan d'enfer (2002).
Benin, gouache on paper, 46 x 37 cm
Kinshasa, DRC. Silver print enhanced with gouache 30 x 40 cm
2001-2007
Six years of voyages on the five continents, meeting women from all over the world for his major project Zoé-Zoé, Femmes du monde.
2008
Zoé-Zoé, Women of the World exhibition at the Musée de l'Homme in Paris
Jérusalem, Palestine - Gouache on paper, 64 x 50 cm
2009
Women of the Planet exhibition at the Oca in Ibirapuera, São Paulo
2009-2011
Trips to the Great Lakes Region, DRC: Ténèbres au paradis
Nord-Kivu, RDC. Acrylique on paper, 93 x 134 cm
2012-2016
Searching for Timbuktu's Beloved Families Exiled in Refugee Camps in Burkina Faso, Niger, Mauritania and Mali: Retour à Tombouctou (2015).
Sahara Connected Exhibition at Centre de la Vieille Charité MAAOA, Marseille
Désert de l'Air, Agadez, Niger. Oil on canvas, 152 x 108 cm
2017-2018
Trips to Martinique, the Marquesas Islands and Tahiti for the realization of the exhibition "The Boat-Studio of Titouan Lamazou" at the Quai Branly Museum and of the Gallimard book L'Errance et le Divers - Le Bateau-atelier de Titouan Lamazou.
Taiohae, Marquesas. Oil on paper, 56 x 76 cm
2019-2022
Travel in the Tuamotus archipelagos, Gambier Islands, Society Islands and Austral Islands for the exhibition "Stopovers in Polynesia" at the Museum of Tahiti and the Islands and the eponymous Gallimard book co-signed by his daughter Zoé Lamazou
Tahiti. Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 76 x 56 cm
2023-2025
Polynesian works for the exhibition Under the Stars at the Museum of Modern Art and contemporary book in Les Sables d'Olonne – MASC and publication of the eponymous book in the Gallimard editions
Tahiti. Oil on canvas, 190 x 140 cm
