by gilles.barbier | Sep 23, 2024
“Banana Riders”, 2004. In the early 2000s, the banana became a recurring motif in his work. Molded in wax and painted, he places it here and there in the exhibition space, calling it Dreamlike Vaseline. This exotic fruit, associated with the monkey (and,...
by gilles.barbier | Sep 22, 2024
“The Cake”, “The Cake”, a very large-scale installation, evokes an edible world, cut into slices. These give a glimpse of an earthen filling tapped by earthworms. An image of a world divided into appetites, gnawed from within by a gluttonous...
by gilles.barbier | Sep 21, 2024
Superheroes: “Nursing Home”, 2002, and “A very Old Thing”, 2015. It was while reading Francis Masse (Les Deux du Balcon) that Gilles Barbier discovered that Mickey, Walt Disney’s little mouse, gets younger as he ages. Francis Masse...
by gilles.barbier | Oct 3, 2024
Link to Preparatory drawings. Cosmogonies. To shed some light on how this works, I’d like to emphasize the machinic and logical aspect. It’s like imagining cores – we could also say software – that play the role of production machines. So many...
by gilles.barbier | Sep 25, 2024
Links : Inhabiting, Inhabiting Painting, Locataire Mobilier. Bonsai Tree Houses. (…) In 2004, I built a tree house. It was an extraordinary experience, combining architecture, sculpture and botany. During this weightless outing – between heaven and earth...
