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Patrick Vilaire

Réflexion sur la mort

  • Exhibition, Paris
  • Fri 10 Jan → Sun 16 Mar 1997
Patrick Vilaire Réflexion sur la mort 1997
Vue de l'exposition Patrick Vilaire, Réflexion sur la mort, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, 1997 © Patrick Vilaire Photo © J.P Godeaut

Location

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

261 boulevard Raspail

75014 Paris

Patrick Vilaire presents seven monumental sculptures. The magic number seven, highly symbolic in many religions, as well as being a key feature of art classical proportions. Seven works with a single, vast subject: death.

Patrick Vilaire, a contemporary artist who works with iron (and therefore fire), lives and works in Haiti, a land that even today relies on the voodoo religion (worship of ancestors and the dead) to resist measures imposed by whites during the days of slavery. Patrick Vilaire takes obvious tactile pleasure in working with the material of iron, he does not indulge in easy seductiveness—the color is raw, the angles sharp and cutting. The chairs, tables, and sarcophagi that populate this exhibition are all instruments in the rites of death. But the true protagonist of the show is neither macabre nor morbid, for it is mankind itself.

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