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1964 Birth of Philippe Pluchart, mixing of a French poodle and Swedish female.
1974 Pluchart draws a series on the vikings and the attacks on castles.
1979 Pluchart paints punks, portraits of his grandparents and kings of Sweden.
1982 Passes his Baccalaureat like a good boy, then writes old-fashioned songs. Does some acting.
1986 Serving his country in the military, staring at a shoe - like Prince Hamlet studying the skull - . A miracle happened : the shoe winks at him!
1987 While on leave, he creates his first transformation of the shoe into an objet d’art.
1990 A young singer offers him her shoes. He creates "Dernier Tango" .
1991 Creation of a portrait of his grandfather with a shoe, then Hommage à E.T.
1992 Creation of the hugging shoes serie.
1993 Vivienne Blassel covers Pluchart’s work for TF1, focussing on the pieces exhibited with the shoes of the Museum of Roman at the Boulogne Town Hall. (near Paris)
1994 Pluchart organizes meetings between nursery school children and his works at the Centre Beaudricourt. (Paris 13ème). Philippe Lefait includes Pluchart’s work in his book "Of shoes and Men" (Editions Julliard). Exhibition at the Noga Hilton in Cannes during the festival. Mentioned by BEN in "Arthème."
Shows at the Brive Autumn Salon, organized by Francis Parent and Gerard Xuriguera. Didier Rataj commissions "Sharks" for Newlook Magazine and exhibits the works at the Bains Douches Night Club in Paris.
1995 Time of deep depression. Studies Scandinavian Mythology at the Sorbonne. Meets Pierre Restany.
Creates five replicas of Monuments de Paris with shoes under the supervision of an architect (M. Lanthonie). Works in a fondary Claverie at Corbeille and realise three bronzes.
1996 Pluchart has had it. He throws down his tools and creates the Vikings Serie, in honor to Regis Boyer.
1997 Exhibition at Atelier Z and the Galerie Regart. Exhibiton with the advertising agency Deslegan/BBDO.
1998 . Pluchart organizes an exhibition on the theme of football. at the Atelier Z. Exibition at the Flora Jansem Galerie orgenized by Jenny Jansem, "artist and objects". Takes control of the knickers and injects in his creative work.
"Shoeting Stars" : Exibition in germany at the Palatin (Wiesloch)
1999 He demolishes the Normandy cottage of his mother to recover the old beams with wich he creates sculptures of warrior themes. Exhibition at the Gallery Regart.
2000 Exhibition at "promesses pour les années 2000" ( espace belleville) orgenized by Gérard Xuriguera and Francis Parent and others.
2001 He realizes 70 sculptures with shoes for Action d'Eclat (advertising company)
2002 Exhibition at Casino of Cabourg with Galerie Regart. Exibition at Beaumesnil (Normandy)
2003 March, exhibition at Romans (Drôme) in the munucipal museum with 42 other artists on the theme of diverted shoe. August at the Casino of Cabourg with Galerie Regart
2017 Shoemakers unveil a statue of Pluchart in his honor.