Johan Creten: How to explain the sculptures to an influencer?
Perrotin is pleased to present How to explain the Sculptures to an Influencer?, the ninth solo exhibition by Johan Creten at the gallery鈥� the fifth in Paris. On this occasion, the artist presents new basreliefs, sculptures and furniture sculptures in bronze and clay.
Johan Creten (born 1963, Sint-Truiden, Belgium, lives and works in Paris) explores the conditions under which a work appears in the real. The artist presents contemporary social mores in different contexts, such as public, domestic, and white cube spaces. Using a title that references art history (specifically Joseph Beuys鈥� 1965 performance at Schmela Gallery in D眉sseldorf during which he explained art to a dead hare) and the contemporary world, the exhibited pieces form a narrative, plastic, and political whole. The sculptor-ceramist studied painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent and then at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he worked on performance art before shifting his focus to the object. Johan Creten works with clay and bronze, not only for their plastic potential but also for their intrinsic narratives. Clay represents the foundation of a society in the making, while bronze tells us about our relationship with history, mainly through monuments.
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Perrotin is pleased to present How to explain the Sculptures to an Influencer?, the ninth solo exhibition by Johan Creten at the gallery鈥� the fifth in Paris. On this occasion, the artist presents new basreliefs, sculptures and furniture sculptures in bronze and clay.
Johan Creten (born 1963, Sint-Truiden, Belgium, lives and works in Paris) explores the conditions under which a work appears in the real. The artist presents contemporary social mores in different contexts, such as public, domestic, and white cube spaces. Using a title that references art history (specifically Joseph Beuys鈥� 1965 performance at Schmela Gallery in D眉sseldorf during which he explained art to a dead hare) and the contemporary world, the exhibited pieces form a narrative, plastic, and political whole. The sculptor-ceramist studied painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent and then at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he worked on performance art before shifting his focus to the object. Johan Creten works with clay and bronze, not only for their plastic potential but also for their intrinsic narratives. Clay represents the foundation of a society in the making, while bronze tells us about our relationship with history, mainly through monuments.
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