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Richard Baquié

Constats d’échec

  • Exhibition, Jouy-en-Josas
  • Sun 10 Mar → Sun 05 May 1991
Richard Baquié Constats d'échec 1991
Vue de l'exposition Richard Baquié, Constats d'échec Jouy-en-Josas, 1991 © Richard Baquié

Location

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

2 Rue du Montcel

78350 Jouy-en-Josas

Since 1980, Richard Baquié has been producing a story from which everything begins. His works are present in the Fondation Cartier’s collection, and given these various collaborations, it was only natural to confirm the Fondation’s commitment with a deeper look into his work.

For Richard Baquié, sculpture is attentiveness. It produces an awareness from which his approach ensues. The elements he collects – old car doors, worn sheets of metal, faltering engines – are not chosen for their easy literary effect, but rather to add a touch of reality to the work, to its influence, to its aura. Through the personal history and thus the memory that these materials convey, they provide the piece with a particular density that fills the form with an alleged story.

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