by gilles.barbier | Sep 20, 2024
“The Cockpit, the Ship, the View from the Porthole”. Espace Claude Berri, Paris, 2008. All Gilles Barbier is in this exhibition title: we are carried away by a vertiginous nautilus and watch the state of the world from its cockpit. The world? The great...
by gilles.barbier | Sep 17, 2024
Links : Clones, Studies and preparatory drawings, Pawns, Copy of the Dictionary, Mega Model, The Cake, Black Drawings, The Black Box. “Gilles Barbier” exhibition. Carré d’Art de Nîmes. (…) The journey imagined by the artist, based on a hundred...
by gilles.barbier | Sep 20, 2024
Link to “Clones” (sculptures). “Der Betrunkene. Kunstverein, Freiburg. 2004 In 2004, Gilles Barbier began one of his most prolific Production Machines: the “Black Drawings”. He has only been working on this series for a few years, but...
by gilles.barbier | Sep 7, 2024
Links to The Game of Life, Checkers, Clones. Pawns 1992. Gilles Barbier inaugurates a working protocol whose simple, concise rules favor a “sideways” approach to art, ideas and work: a checkerboard, pawns, a displacement operator and statements. The layout of the game...
by gilles.barbier | Sep 18, 2024
Stasis (…) To talk about “Stasis”, the series of sculptures I began in the early 2010s, I need to talk about Still Life. This genre never ceases to capture my attention, as it accompanies my daydreams. Both images and sculptures have a highly complex...
