Johan CRETEN De Kleine Vleermuis, 2021-2022 Bronze,... - Lot 22 - Oger - Blanchet

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Johan CRETEN De Kleine Vleermuis, 2021-2022 Bronze,... - Lot 22 - Oger - Blanchet
Johan CRETEN De Kleine Vleermuis, 2021-2022 Bronze, lost wax casting. Signed and justified. Dim. 11 x 18 x 14 cm - Weight : 1,2 kg Edition 9/24 of an edition of 24. Born in Belgium in 1963, settled in Paris, the artist Johan Creten is a pioneer of the revival of ceramics in contemporary art. contemporary art. Since the 1980s, when ceramics was neglected because it was considered taboo, the artist has worked with clay without respite, developing innovative and virtuoso techniques. Conceived in Mexico or Miami, in Rome or The Hague, his famous allegorical sculptures in bronze or ceramic build a world filled with poetry, lyricism and mystery, haunted by beauty and populated by a social and political dimension. Better yet, humanistic. Claiming "Slow Art", the work of Johan Creten crowns individual introspection and societal exploration, when intimate anguish and collective torments emerge. Johan Creten's work is represented and supported by the Perrotin Gallery (Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo and Shanghai), by the Almine Rech gallery (Brussels) and by the Transit gallery (Mechelen). The proposed work is a bronze edition of the model for the monumental sculpture exhibited at the Musée La Piscine in Roubaix (France) in 2022, at the Villa Medici (Rome, Italy) in 2020-2021, in front of the Petit Palais (Paris, France) in 2019 and in Pilane (Sweden) in 2019. Courtesy : Johan CRETEN, Galerie PERROTIN. With the support of OF ART. Donor: JOHAN CRETEN - GALERIE PERROTIN
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