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Johan Creten - Bestiarium

Johan Creten - Publisher Gallimard - Ouvrage relié - 224 pages - Text in Bilingue Français / English - Published in 2022

The Belgian Flemish sculptor Johan Creten, born in 1963, is a pioneer in the revival of ceramics ln contemporary art. This bilingual catalogue explores the animality in his art. Creten's bestiary is a poetic and political human menagerie of new and past works...

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Model 9782072984938
Artist Johan Creten
Author Sous la direction de Colin Lemoine
Publisher Gallimard
Format Ouvrage relié
Number of pages 224
Language Bilingue Français / English
Dimensions 285 x 245
Published 2022
Museum Musée La Piscine, Roubaix

Exhibition Catalogue Johan Creten : Bestiarium, presented at Museum La Piscine de Roubaix (12 march - 29 may 2022).

A major protagonist in the revival of ceramics, Johan Creten is an artist known around the world for his works which, whether glazed terracotta or musings in bronze, depict an unsettling strangeness and play with impaired vision, manhandle our representations and popular beliefs.

For the exhibition in Roubaix, designed in partnership with the Almine Rech gallery, the artist will present, in addition to two emblematic works from his career – C’est dans ma nature (2001) and De Vleermuis (2015-2019), a metamorphic bas-relief and a monumental fountain in the form of a bat, – an unusual set of seventeen ceramic animals (Beasts). A wild boar stuck in a bloody mire, a fly asleep like a cadaver tomb or a pelican petrified by unfathomable sadness: the bestiary is never naturalistic but symbolic, with each animal a sign of the ethereal, between desolation and abandonment, impulse and melancholy. No still lifes here: everything is alive, everything pulses and everything trembles. These faux-naïf beasts recount the political substance of a world made of conflict, struggle and resignation, but also of joy, consolation and hope. For if man is a political animal, the world is a splendid theatre of cruelty…

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