Anne and Patrick Poirier

Anne ( born March 31, 1942 in Marseille) and Patrick ( born May 5, 1942 in Nantes) Poirier is a French artist couple.

Career and artistic work

Anne and Patrick Poirier studied from 1963 to 1966 at the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs National in Paris. After winning the Prix de Rome, they lived from 1969 to 1971 as fellows of the Académie de France à Rome at the Villa Medici in Rome.

The stay of the two in Rome with his testimonies from antiquity, a trip to Angkor in 1970, but also both childhood experiences in war-torn France were decisive for her artistic work; central theme of the works created by the Poirier is the cultural memory, but also forgetting. They see your art in proximity to archeology. In many works of Poirier to find quotes and set pieces from antiquity, which arranges the artist couple in new contexts of meaning: Cracked and broken columns or oversized enlarged eye area from Michelangelo's " David ". So Anne and Patrick Poirier to be expected to the direction of the crime scene.

Opinion

"The memory is the condition of every creative act, every structure of the future, but we also consist of forgetting. There is no memory without this enormous and powerful counterweight of forgetting. Is the creator only an archeologist of memory and forgetting? "

Works (selection)

  • Ostia antica, 1971-1972
  • Domus aurea, 1975-1977
  • La grande colonne noire du Suchères, 1984-1985
  • Gorgobrunnen "Medusa", 1987
  • Oculus historiae, oculus memoriae, oculus Oblivionis, 1989-1990
  • Mnemosyne, 1990-1991
  • De la fragilite you Puvoir, 1989-1992
  • Danger zone, 2001
  • War game, 2002
  • Memoria Mundi, 2002, Art Walks human traces, Neanderthal

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Gallery Maenz Cologne, 1972
  • Paris Biennale, 1973
  • Kunstverein in Hamburg, 1974
  • Venice Biennale, 1976, 1980, 1984
  • Documenta 6 in Kassel, 1977
  • Musée National d' Art Moderne Paris, 1978
  • Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus Munich, 1988
  • Museum of Modern Art Vienna, 1994
  • Center for Contemporary Art Linz, 2002
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