by admin-djuly | Aug 17, 2024
Links to Hawaiian Ghosts, The Cockpit, Preparatory Drawings, Variations, The Shipweck, Shipwrecks Book. Shipwrecks The theme of shipwreck, recurrent in Gilles Barbier’s work, conjures up drifts, rafts, swells and storms. It depicts the instability of the world...
by gilles.barbier | Oct 18, 2024
Meditation on the Front Page. Painting is a fantasy. Despite its predicted deaths, whether chronic or cerebral, it always ends up coming back, like a ghost. This ghost had already haunted Gilles Barbier’s work with the Hawaiian Ghosts where the shroud, the last...
by gilles.barbier | Sep 4, 2024
Link to “Between, In, Behind, Under, On… (Exhibition views). Between, In, Behind, Under, On… ”Under the Dirt (Humus) #1”. 2018, Gouache and Posca® on paper, 190 x 190 cm.”Under the Dirt (Humus) #1”. 2018, Gouache and Posca® on paper, 190 x 190 cm....
by gilles.barbier | Sep 23, 2024
Link to Metaphysical Suite. The Treasure (I & II, 2013 – 2018). Treasure is always something enormous, even when it’s very small! What I mean is that, as treasure, it goes beyond its rational contours to encompass the whole field of fantasy, desire and...
by gilles.barbier | Oct 23, 2024
Links to: Shipwrecks, Book of Shipwrecks. The Shipwreck (2009-2010) After the Cockpit and the Blender Gilles barbier developed The Shipwreck. It’s the first time this title appears clearly in his work. His brother had just died suddenly in a surfing accident,...
