Month: February 2023

  • Vue d’exposition / Installation view L’Ile intérieure, Villa Carmignac, Ile de Porquerolles, 2023. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo : Nicolas Brasseur
  • Caroline Achaintre, Museum Lothar Fischer, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, 2023. Photo: Andreas Pauly
  • Caroline Achaintre, Museum Lothar Fischer, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, 2023. Photo: Andreas Pauly
  • Vue d’exposition / Installation view, Earth Spells Witches of the Anthropocene at RAMM, Exeter, 2023.
    Caroline Achaintre, Ghost Duck, 2020. Laine tuftée à la main / Hand tufted wool, 240 × 205 cm (94 ½ × 80 ¾ in)
    Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris.
  • Caroline Achaintre, Elm, 2021. Céramique/terre cuite / Ceramic/Terracotta. 63 × 26 × 22 cm (24 ¾ × 10 ¼ × 8 ⅝ inches). Courtesy the artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Collection privée. Photo Romain Darnaud
  • Vue d’exposition / Installation view, Caroline Achaintre, Shiftings, 2022, Centre d’art Pasquart, Biel/CH. Photo Stefan Rohner. Courtesy the artist; Arcade, London; Art: Concept, Paris
  • Vue d’exposition / Installation view, Caroline Achaintre, Shiftings, 2022, Centre d’art Pasquart, Biel/CH. Photo Stefan Rohner. Courtesy the artist; Arcade, London; Art: Concept, Paris
  • Vue de l’exposition / Installation view, L’Ame primitive, Musée Zadkine, Paris, 2021. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris.
  • Caroline Achaintre, AstraY, 2014. Laine tuftée à la main / Hand tufted wool, 280 × 222 × 25 cm. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Collection Tate Britain (Acquisition 2015)
  • Vue d’exposition / Installation view Caroline Achaintre. Shiftings, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg 2021, Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris, Photo by Wynrich Zlomke
  • Vue d’exposition / Installation view Caroline Achaintre. Shiftings, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg 2021, Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris, Photo by Wynrich Zlomke
  • Major strike, 2021, watercolour and ink on paper, 14 × 10 in.
  • Derma D, 2020, ceramic (porcelain), 13 3/8 × 26 3/4 × 3 7/8 in.
  • Inhibitor, 2020, hand tufted wool, 104 3/4 × 81 7/8 in. Collection privée/private collection
  • Slacks, 2020, ceramic (porcelain), 13 3/4 × 17 3/4 × 14 1/8 in.
  • Solaris inverse, 2021, watercolour and ink on paper, 14 × 10 in.
  • Vue d’exposition, Caroline Achaintre Tête-à-tête, Art : Concept, Paris, 2021
  • Louis Q, 2020. Hand tufted wool, 98 3/8 x 78 3/4 in.
  • Vue d’exposition, Vue Liquide, Fondation Thalie, Brussels, 2020. Photo: Laetizia Debain
  • Vue d’exposition, Vue Liquide, Fondation Thalie, Brussels, 2020. Photo: Laetizia Debain
  • Permanente, Installation view, Fondazione Giuliani, May – October 2020. Photo: Giorgio Benni
  • Permanente, Installation view, Fondazione Giuliani, May – October 2020. Photo: Giorgio Benni
  • Permanente, Installation view, Fondazione Giuliani, May – October 2020. Photo: Giorgio Benni
  • Permanente, Installation view, Fondazione Giuliani, May – October 2020. Photo: Giorgio Benni
  • Installation view, Ca roline Achaintre, permanente, Capc Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, 2020. Photo: Arthur Péquin
  • Installation view, Ca roline Achaintre, permanente, Capc Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, 2020. Photo: Arthur Péquin
  • IGOR, 2019. Hand tufted wool, 102 3/8 x 65 in.
  • MissTique, 2019. Hand tufted wool, 86 5/8 x 65 3/4 in.
  • Vue d’exposition / Installation view Caroline Achaintre. Permanente, MOCO Panacée, Montpellier, 2019
  • Vue d’exposition / Installation view Caroline Achaintre. “Dauerwelle”, 2019 Foto: kunst-dokumentation.com, Manuel Carreon Lopez; © Belvedere, Wien
  • Vue d’exposition / Installation view Caroline Achaintre. “Dauerwelle”, 2019. Foto: kunst-dokumentation.com, Manuel Carreon Lopez; © Belvedere, Wien
  • Vue d’exposition / Installation view Caroline Achaintre. “Dauerwelle”. Foto: kunst-dokumentation.com, Manuel Carreon Lopez; © Belvedere, Wien
  • Caroline Achaintre, Severine, 2018 céramique / ceramics. 26,04 × 40,01 × 35,88 cm (10 ¼ × 15 ¾ × 14 ⅛ in). Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Claire Dorn
  • Vue d’exposition / Installation view, Fantômas, Be-Part, Waregem Platform for Contemporary Art and De La Warr Pavilion, Waregem, 2018. Photo: Dirk Pauwels
  • Installation view, Fantômas, Be-Part, Waregem Platform for Contemporary Art and De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, 2018. Photo: Dirk Pauwels
  • Vue d’exposition, Caroline Achaintre, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
    Photo: John McKenzie
  • Vue d’exposition / installation view. Caroline Achaintre – Frac Champagne Ardenne, 2017. Photo Martin Argyroglo
  • Vue d’exposition / installation view. Caroline Achaintre – Frac Champagne Ardenne, 2017. Photo Martin Argyroglo

Biography

Born in France in 1969, raised in Germany and based in England, Caroline Achaintre attended the Kunsthochschule in Halle, then the Chelsea College of Art and Design, and the Goldsmiths University of London. The artist is nourished by multiple and radically different cultural references that influence her approach. With her sculptures made of wool, ceramic and with her watercolours, the artist appropriates each space to install her hybrid creatures, transforming the exhibition space into a theater where a dialogue between different characters half-fantastic, half-ghostly can take place. Inspired at once by European carnivals, primitivism, German Expressionism and science fiction, Caroline Achaintre’s work on the one hand evokes the possible coexistence of several characters within a same being as well as the tensions generated by duality. No precise indication is given as to how to approach the work of Achaintre. We see in turn a mask, a garment, an animal… Her works have the particular feature of being difficult to define. At once abstract and figurative, they reveal anthropomorphic forms and indicate a particular interest for animism. The mutation of forms and the plurality of possible interpretations engage the mind and the whim of the viewer. This is the strength of Caroline Achaintre’s work: to question our own capacity to be in the world as individuals defined by complex and multiple identities.

Her work is part of numerous public collections among which: CAPC, Bordeaux/FR; Tate Britain, Londres/UK; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris; FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, and FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims.

Selected solo exhibitions: Kunstmuseum Ravensburg/Centre d’art Pasquart/CH (2021-2022), CAPC, Bordeaux/FR (2020-21), MO.CO., Montpellier/FR (2019); Belvedere 21, Vienna/AU (2019); De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-sea/UK (2018); FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims/FR (2017); BALTIC, Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead/UK (2016); Tate Britain, London/UK (2015); Castello di Rivoli, Turin/IT (2013).

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  • Vue d’exposition / Installation views Constellations, Musée d’Art Moderne de Céret, 2023. Photo Robin Townsend
  • Vue d’exposition / Installation view, Les choses, Musée du Louvre, 2O22. Photo © Musée du Louvre / Audrey Viger. Courtesy the Artist; Art : Concept, Paris.
  • Hubert Duprat. Vue d’exposition / Exhibition view, La mer Imaginaire / The Imaginary Sea, Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles/FR, 2021. Curator: Chris Sharp. Photo: Marc Domage
  • Hubert Duprat, Martyr, 2019. Plexiglas / Plexiglass. 20 × 100 cm (7 ⅞ × 39 ⅜ inches)
  • Hubert Duprat, Sans titre / Untilted, 2013. Plâtre, pots en terre cuite / Plaster, baked clay pots. 232 × 1 800 × 15 cm (91 ⅜ × 708 ⅝ × 5 ⅞ in.)
  • Hubert Duprat, Volos, 2013-2015. Pointe de hache en silex poli du néolithique tardif, argile crue / Late neolithic polished flintstone axehead, raw clay. 51 x 20 x 6 cm (20 1/8 x 7 7/8 x 2 3/8 in.)
  • Tribulum, 2012-2015. Hubert Duprat, Tribulum, 2012-2015. Mousse de polyuréthane, silex / Polyurethane foam , flint, 100 x 69,85 x 18,1 cm (39 3/8 x 27 1/2 x 7 1/8 in.)
  • Hubert Duprat, Chagrin, 2009-2012. Polystyrène, bois et chagrin / Polystyrene, wood and shagreen, dimensions variables / variable dimensions
  • Hubert Duprat, Chagrin, 2009-2012. Polystyrène, bois et chagrin / Polystyrene, wood and shagreen, dimensions variables / variable dimensions
  • Hubert Duprat, Sans titre/ Untilted, 2008-2015. 200 000 magnétites / 200 000 lodestones, 85 x 280 x 280 cm (33 1/2 x 110 1/4 x 110 1/4 in.)
  • Hubert Duprat, Sans titre / Untilted, 2007-2008. Cristaux de pyrite broyés, colle araldite, base / Crushed pyrite crystals, araldite glue, base, hauteur: 44 cm, diamètre: 48 cm / height: 17 3/8 in., diameter: 18 7/8 in.
  • Hubert Duprat, Comme un gant / Like a glove 2003-2005. Galets d’hématite, mastic polyester, 5 tubes / Hematite pebbles, polyester mastic cement, 5 tubes, 120 x 205 x 120 cm. (47 1/4 x 80 3/4 x 47 1/4 in.)
  • Hubert Duprat, Sans titre (Le feu) / Untilted (The Fire), 2002. Encre de chine sur contreplaqué / Chinese ink on plywood, 122 x 420 cm (122 x 165 3/8 in.)
  • Hubert Duprat, Sans titre (série Les bêtes) / Untilted (beast series) 1992-1999. Silex / Flint, 30 x 35 cm (11 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.)
  • Hubert Duprat, Corail Costa Brava / Costa Brava Coral, 1994-2021. Corail rouge de Méditerranée, mie de pain, colle / Red mediterraneen coral, bread, glue, 20 × 22 × 24 cm (7 ⅞ × 8 ⅝ × 9 ½ in.)
  • Hubert Duprat, Coupé-Cloué / Cut-Nailed, 1991-1994. Bois et clous de laiton / Beech wood and upholstery brass nails, 53 × 507 cm (20 ⅞ × 199 ⅝ in.)
  • Hubert Duprat, Les Agates / The Agates 1986-1989. Quatre cibachromes couleur / Four color cibachromes, 4 x (76 x 160 cm) ( 4x (29 7/8 x 63 in.)), ed 1/3
  • Hubert Duprat, Tube de trichoptère / Trichoptera’s tube, 1980-2015. Or, turquoise, saphir / Gold, turquoise, sapphire, 0,5 × 1,8 cm (¼ × ¾ in.).

Biography

Hubert Duprat was born in 1957 in Nérac in Lot-et-Garonne, he lives and works in the South of France.

Protean, demanding and complex, Duprat’s work draws inspiration from chance and the empirical, combining the discovery of objects, remnants and texts in a testing-out of matter, technique and dexterity. The artist is equally happy in the natural world or working with strange minerals (iron pyrites, calcite, ulexite, etc.), species that defy classification (amber, coral, etc.) and everyday industrial materials (polystyrene, concrete, paraffin, modelling clay, etc.) His repurposed processes come largely from the crafts – marquetry, goldsmithery, upholstery – but also from such vernacular domains as string art.*

His work can be found in several public collections among which: Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Tasmanie/AU; Centre Pompidou, Paris/FR; Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco/FR; Collection Musée des Arts Contemporains de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Grand-Hornu/BE ; Paris Museum of Modern Art, Paris/FR; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon/FR ; Fondation Cartier, Paris; Fond National d’Art Contemporain, Paris; and in numerous regional art funds (FRAC).

A retrospective of his work was presented at the City of Paris Museum of Modern Art in 2020-2021. Solo exhibitions have been dedicated to his work among which: Art : Concept, Paris/FR (2019); MONA, Tasmania/AU (2013); Norwich Museum, Norwich/UK (2011); Centre International d’Art et du Paysage, Vassivière/FR (2008); Musée Picasso, Antibes/FR (1998).
 
*Read the press release for the exhibition “Hubert Duprat” at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, written by Jessica Castex, 2020

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