by gilles.barbier | Sep 5, 2024
What came out of the hat today. If you want your ideas to be clean, , change them like your shirt. F. Picabia Over the past thirty years, Gilles Barbier has produced more than 1,000 statements. By “statement”, he means a short sentence that may or may not,...
by gilles.barbier | Oct 4, 2024
Cauldrons, 2010. Gilles had bought three large copper cauldrons. Two of them were destined for the sculptures being worked on in the studio, the third was lying around. He started sketching it in his notebooks, with lots of stuff in it. He then reworked these sketches...
by gilles.barbier | Oct 4, 2024
Communication stations. Electrical connections in hanks and balls, cables radiating anarchically from their supports. They can be found wherever the earth trembles, particularly in Japan. A manifestation of what, in our latitudes, goes on underground. But this...
by gilles.barbier | Sep 5, 2024
Melting Pictures. Although his paintings belong to the Metaphysical Suite they form a distinct and easily identifiable sub-group (like the Vanishing Pictures). The Melting Pictures are characterized by an approach in which the excess of desire for paint, now pure...
by gilles.barbier | Sep 5, 2024
Links : Metaphysical Suite, Melting Pictures. Vanishing Pictures In the sustained greyness of these gouaches, one sensation prevails: effacement. Barely delivered to our gaze, these images gleaned from the large canvas are torn from the comfort of evidence to serve...
