Anne and Patrick Poirier
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Anne (born March 31, 1942 in Marseille ) and Patrick (born May 5, 1942 in Nantes ) Poirier are a French artist couple.
Career and artistic work
Anne and Patrick Poirier studied from 1963 to 1966 at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris . After winning the Prix de Rome , they lived from 1969 to 1971 as a scholarship holder of the Académie de France à Rome in the Villa Medici in Rome .
The stay of the two in Rome with his evidence from antiquity, a trip to Angkor in 1970, but also both childhood experiences in war-torn France were decisive for their artistic work; the central theme of the works created by the Poiriers is cultural memory, but also forgetting. They see their art in proximity to archeology . Quotations and set pieces from antiquity can be found in many of the Poiriers' works, which the artist couple arranges in new contexts of meaning: broken and broken columns or oversized eye areas from Michelangelo's “ David ”. With this Anne and Patrick Poirier are counted towards the direction of the forensic investigation.
opinion
“Memory is the condition of every creative act, every construction of the future, but we also consist of forgetting. There is no memory without this enormous and powerful counterbalance to forgetting. Is the creator just an archaeologist of memory and oblivion? "
Works (selection)
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- Ostia antica . 1971-1972
- Domus aurea . 1975-1977
- La grande colonne noire du Suchères . 1984-1985
- Gorgo fountain "Medusa" , 1987
- Oculus historiae, oculus memoriae, oculus oblivionis . 1989-1990
- Mnemosyne . 1990-1991
- De la Fragility du Pouvoir . 1989-1992
- Dépot de mémoire et d'oubli . 1992. Museum Ludwig Koblenz
- Danger zone . 2001
- Was game . 2002
- Memoria Mundi . 2002, Kunstweg MenschenSpuren , Neandertal
Exhibitions (selection)
- Maenz Gallery Cologne , 1972
- Paris Biennale , 1973
- Art Association in Hamburg , 1974
- Venice Biennale , 1976, 1980, 1984
- documenta 6 Kassel, 1977
- Musée National d'Art Moderne Paris, 1978
- Municipal gallery in the Lenbachhaus Munich, 1988
- Museum of Modern Art Vienna, 1994
- Center for Contemporary Art Linz , 2002
- Sculpture Park Waldfrieden , Wuppertal , October 29, 2016 to January 8, 2017, brief description from the website of the Sculpture Park Waldfrieden, accessed on September 17, 2016
literature
- Aleida Assmann : memory spaces. Forms and changes in cultural memory . CH Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-50961-4
- Jan Assmann : Crypt - Preserved and suppressed past. Artistic and scientific explorations of cultural memory . In: Bernhard Jussen (ed.): Archeology between imagination and science: Anne and Patrick Poirier . Wallstein, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-89244-347-5
- Helmut Friedel (eds.) And Petra Giloy-Hirtz: Guide to Art for Munich in Public Space 1972–1979 . Hugendubel, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-88034-957-6
- Doris Angermann: Ensemble “Oculus historiae” . In: Steffi Roettgen (Hrsg.): Sculpture and plastic on Munich's streets and squares. Art in public space 1945–1999 . IDEA-Verlag, Puchheim 2000, ISBN 3-88793-150-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Anne Poirier in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Patrick Poirier in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Anne and Patrick Poirier in the documenta archive
- Poirier, Anne and Patrick: Occhio Piangente . Schleswig-Holstein Museum Association
- museum platform nrw: Anna and Patrick Poirier . NRW CULTURE Secretariat
- Anne and Patrick Poirier . artnet
Individual evidence
- ^ Pensionnaires: Anne et Patrick Poirier . Académie de France à Rome, accessed February 5, 2010
- ↑ Günter Metken : Detection of evidence: art as anthropology and self-exploration . DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 1982, ISBN 3-7701-0954-6
- ↑ Quoted from Helmut Friedel (eds.) And Petra Giloy-Hirtz: Guide to Art for Munich in Public Space 1972-1979 . Hugendubel, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-88034-957-6 , p. 151
- ^ Anne & Patrick Poirier . kunstaspekte.de, accessed on February 5, 2010