Vincent Barré
1948 (Vierzon)
Living in : Paris et Saint-Firmin-des-Bois
Working in : Paris et Saint-Firmin-des-Bois
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With Vincent Barré, thought is rooted in a body. From then on, the sculptor can only admit his attraction to “paintings and sculptures belonging to periods which can be described as archaic or as signaling a birth”. The archetypal forms developed by Vincent Barré are tinged with a double constancy: first of all, an obstinate relationship to the gesture of the hand giving form, giving life and an unfinished quest leading him to grasp the structuring schemes that signal this buried mythology. Abstraction or simplification serve as the expression of an archaic symbolism. If the history of art previously had the place it deserved in the mental environment of the artist, it was from 1984, with the Fates series, that he brought it directly into play in his plastic work, associating references to the Quattrocento and admiration for figures of modernity like Julio Gonzalez or Pablo Picasso. His sculpture is refined and airy there to give way to a feeling of serenity, also palpable in his later works. Abstract, his vocabulary is completely abstract today, without however cutting ties with the carnal substance which constitutes its central element. In his recent exhibitions, whether in Rouen in 2010 or in Le Havre in 2011, his practice is augmented by a contextual approach: works from the collections of these institutions are placed next to his own creations.
Living in : Paris et Saint-Firmin-des-Bois
Working in : Paris et Saint-Firmin-des-Bois
Artist's webSite
Artist's gallery
With Vincent Barré, thought is rooted in a body. From then on, the sculptor can only admit his attraction to “paintings and sculptures belonging to periods which can be described as archaic or as signaling a birth”. The archetypal forms developed by Vincent Barré are tinged with a double constancy: first of all, an obstinate relationship to the gesture of the hand giving form, giving life and an unfinished quest leading him to grasp the structuring schemes that signal this buried mythology. Abstraction or simplification serve as the expression of an archaic symbolism. If the history of art previously had the place it deserved in the mental environment of the artist, it was from 1984, with the Fates series, that he brought it directly into play in his plastic work, associating references to the Quattrocento and admiration for figures of modernity like Julio Gonzalez or Pablo Picasso. His sculpture is refined and airy there to give way to a feeling of serenity, also palpable in his later works. Abstract, his vocabulary is completely abstract today, without however cutting ties with the carnal substance which constitutes its central element. In his recent exhibitions, whether in Rouen in 2010 or in Le Havre in 2011, his practice is augmented by a contextual approach: works from the collections of these institutions are placed next to his own creations.
Artist's exhibitions
Ce que la Palestine apporte au monde
31/05/2023 - 31/12/2023
(Paris) Institut du monde arabe
31/05/2023 - 31/12/2023
(Paris) Institut du monde arabe
Vincent Barré. Sous les grands arbres, sculptures et dessins
01/05/2016 - 18/09/2016
(Le Cateau-Cambrésis) Musée Matisse le Cateau-Cambrésis
01/05/2016 - 18/09/2016
(Le Cateau-Cambrésis) Musée Matisse le Cateau-Cambrésis
Francois Aubrun, Vincent Barré, Clémence Van Lunen
01/03/2015 - 31/05/2015
(Bignan) Domaine de Kerguéhennec
01/03/2015 - 31/05/2015
(Bignan) Domaine de Kerguéhennec
Art Contemporain au château de Chaumont-sur-Loire
11/04/2014 - 02/11/2014
(Chaumont-sur-Loire) Domaine régional de Chaumont sur Loire
11/04/2014 - 02/11/2014
(Chaumont-sur-Loire) Domaine régional de Chaumont sur Loire
3e Biennale de sculpture d'Yerres - Inventer des mondes singuliers
16/09/2011 - 27/11/2011
(Yerres) Maison Caillebotte
16/09/2011 - 27/11/2011
(Yerres) Maison Caillebotte
Re-poser / Re-garder : sculptures, dessins de Vincent Barré
18/06/2011 - 04/09/2011
(Le Havre) MuMa - Musée d’art moderne André Malraux
18/06/2011 - 04/09/2011
(Le Havre) MuMa - Musée d’art moderne André Malraux
Sur mesures
22/01/2011 - 31/12/2011
(Arles) Musée Réattu
22/01/2011 - 31/12/2011
(Arles) Musée Réattu
Vincent Barré et Sylvain Dubuisson
10/12/2010 - 06/03/2011
(Rouen) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
10/12/2010 - 06/03/2011
(Rouen) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
artist_books
Dictionnaire international de la sculpture moderne & contemporaine
Collectif Édition du Regard « Le dictionnaire est une machine à rêver », affirmait, songeur, Roland Barthes dans la préface du dictionnaire Hachette. Lorsqu’un auteur envisage de répertorier l’ensemble des sculpteurs des périodes modernes et contemporaines, il condense l’imaginaire de tout un pan de la création en quelques 1500 notices illustrées. La rédaction, entreprise p ...