Patrick Vilaire Réflexion sur la mort

In 1997, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presented seven monumental sculptures by Patrick Vilaire. Seven works with one major subject: death. Born in Haiti, a land that still resists global conformity through its voodoo religion and cult of ancestors and the dead, Patrick Vilaire works with metal, therefore fire.
The exhibition catalog offers thoughts on Patrick Vilaire’s work and shows that its true protagonist is not the macabre or the morbid but man, searching for a meaning for his existence. With art often coming to his aid.