Pascal Kern, Large French Conceptual Sculpture Photograph Triptych Copper Frame Pascal Kern, 1987

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Pascal Kern (1952-2007) Icone (three panel triptych), 1987 Cibachrome print, inn copper handmade frame. (One is empty of photo on … Read more Pascal Kern (1952-2007) Icone (three panel triptych), 1987 Cibachrome print, inn copper handmade frame. (One is empty of photo on purpose.) Bearing artist label and inscriptions (frame verso) 48 x 48 inches. (each) Provenance: the Ginny L Williams collection. Williams was a major art collector and photo dealer. She had been an early champion of women’s art and she collected many of the biggest female names in modernism, such as Helen Frankenthaler and Louise Bourgeois. She also collected international art stars such as Sandy Skoglund, Joel Peter-Witkin and Thomas Ruff. She served on the Denver Art Museums board of trustees and also served on the boards of the Guggenheim in New York and the Hirschhorn in Washington, D.C. Born in 1952, Pascal Kern lived and worked in Paris, France where he studied at the Sorbonne. For much of his career, Kern used photography to produce sculpture which explore the question of volume in all its aspects: the relationships between volume and surface, fullness and emptiness, mass and color, depth and contour. The enigma of Kern‘s artwork lies in his questioning of the boundaries of sculpture, photograph, fiction, and function. The presentation of the life-size cibachrome photographs as diptychs, triptychs or polyptychs underscores the sculptural element of the work. Using found or natural forms, he elevates the every-day to an almost Iconic status; fascinated with the space created and occupied by the subject, and the purity of it’s form. The metal industrial objects and wooden moulds are retrieved from old factories and foundries, while the vegetables are grown from seed. The artist lived with his subject matter for a period of time before photographing, taking only one photograph which is later reproduced to life-sized. The cibachrome photographs of each subject are presented as diptychs, triptychs or polyptychs, in frames constructed with related materials. The final stage in the long process of crafting these incredible works is for them to be hung specifically (with precise instructions from the artist) to achieve a perfect balance ; the work appearing almost weightless whilst creating an unusually powerful presence. SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2005 Sculpture, Culture, Nature, Galerie Lucien Schweitzer, Luxembourg, Switzerland. 2004 Sculpture – Culture – Nature, HackelBury Fine Art, London, United Kingdom. 2003 Sculpture, Culture, Nature, Galerie Lucien Schweitzer, Luxembourg, Switzerland. 2001 Nature, Culture, Sculpture, L‘Imagerie, Lannion, France. 1999 Travaux, Maison Espagnole, Festival Contrebande, Revin, France. 1998 Sculpture, Galerie Zabriskie, Paris, France. Sculpture, La Fraternelle, Maison du Peuple, Saint-Claude, France. Sculpture , F.R.A.C. Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Sculpture, Musée des Beaux – Arts, Lons-le-Saunier, France. 1997 Quelques travaux 1983/96, La Fraternelle, Maison du Peuple, Saint-Claude, France. 1996 Travaux 1988/95, Espace Peires, Toulon, France. Les avatars, Galerie Zabriskie, Paris, France. Les Avatars & Autres Travaux, 9° Photofolies, Burloup, Rodez, France. 1991 Sculpture, Chapelle du Méjan, Arles, France. Sculpture, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany. Culture – Nature, Galerie Zabriskie, Paris. Sculpture – Culture – Nature, Centre National de la Photographie, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. 1989 Icônes & Sculptures, Centre d’Arts Plastiques, Villefranche / Saône, France. 1988 Icones & Fictions Colorées, Galerie de l’École des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France. Icones & Fictions Colorées, Institut Français, Cologne, France. Sculpture, Galerie Zabriskie, Paris, France. 1985 Colored Fiction, Galerie Anna Leonowens, Halifax, Canada. Fictions Colorées, FRAC Champagne – Ardennes, Chaumont, France. 1982 Cinéma l’Épatant & Trois installations, Usine Pali-kao, Paris, France. 1980 Usine à Bastos, Ateliers Contemporains, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France. SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017 L’éloge du paradoxe, Le Douches La Galerie, Paris, France. 2014 Leitmotif: Doug & Mike Starn, Garry Fabian Miller, Ian McKeever, Bill Armstrong, Pascal Kern, HackelBury Fine Art, London, United Kingdom. Pascal Kern, Garry Fabian Miller, Doug & Mike Starn, HackelBury Fine Art, London, United Kingdom.2013 Convergence: Garry Fabian Miller, Pascal Kern, William Klein, Richard Learoyd, Saul Leiter, Ian McKeever, Doug & Mike Starn, HackelBury Fine Art, London, United Kingdom. 2011 Flux: A Unity Of Opposites: Pascal Kern, Katia Liebmann, Garry Fabian Miller, Doug & Mike Starn, HackelBury Fine Art, London, United Kingdom. 2012 Exposition retrospective, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. 2012 Exposition retrospective, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France. 2004 20 ans de la Collection Frac Champagne Ardennes, Reims, France. 2003 Arles et la Photographie, Collection du Musée Réattu, Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul de Vence, France. 2002 Les Regard de l’autre, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France 2000 ans de créations d’après l’Antique, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France. 1998 Présentation d’une collection, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France. 1997 Heureux le Visionnaire Dont la Seule Arme Est le Stylet du Graveur, Présentation d’une Commande Publique Pour le FNAC. Travelled to: Musée de L’Estampe, Rueil-Malmaison; Musée du dessin et de l’estampe originale, Arsenal de Gravelines; Musée-Château d’Annecy, France. SAGA 97, etc. 5 ans d’acquisition, FRAC Alsace, Centre européen d’actions artistiques contemporaines, Strasbourg. 1996 Extraits de la Collection. FRAC Picardie, Abbeville and Amiens, France. 1994 Photographie et au Dela : Nouvelles Expressions en France, Musée d‘Art Moderne, Jerusalem, Israel. Travelled to: Boca Raton Museum of Art Boca Raton, FL. (Photographers: David Buono, Christian Boltanski, Ariele Bonzon, Sophie Calle, Pascal Kern, Suzanne Lafont, and Annette Messager.) La Tentation de la 3 ° Dimension, Mai de la Photo, Reims, France. 1993 Laiterie en Friche – Europe en Chantier, La Laiterie, Strasbourg, France. La Photographie Dans les Collections Publiques Françaises, National Gallery, Athens, Greece. Dada, Hans Jean Arp et Aprés, Musée d‘Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France. De Brancusi a Boltanski, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy. 1992 Kern, Barbara & Michael Leisgen, Gerard Traquandi, Galerie Christine Debras et Yves Bical, Brussels, Belgium. Primavera, Musée d‘Art Moderne, Barcelona, Spain. 1991 Photographie Francaise en liberté, l.C.P., New York, NY. The second east-west photo-conference, Musée d‘Architecture, Wroclaw, Poland. 1987 The Spiral of Artificiality, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY. Sans titre, Musées: Houston; New York; San Francisco. A Visible Order, Galerie Liberman et Saul, New York, NY. 1986 Signs of the Real, White Columns, New York, NY. L‘Eternité Heureuse Bernard Faucon, Kern, Georges Rousse, Musée des Beaux Arts, Bar le Duc, France. Travelled to: Galerie Passage, Troyes, France. Jeune Sculpture – Exposition Bilan, Port d'Austerlitz, Paris, France. Surfaces Sensibles – 15 artistes a la Salpétrière, Chapelle de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France. Sites, Carrefour Création Contemporaine/Alsace, Strasbourg, France. 1985 Images Fabriquées, exposition itinérante, Musée National d‘Art Moderne, Paris, France. Pascal Kern et Patrick Tosani – Accrochage, Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France. Livres d’Artistes, présentation des collections de la Bibliothèque Nationale, BPI, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Accrochage, Galerie Zabriskie, New York, NY. Un Monde Naturel, Maison de l‘Avocat, Nantes, France. 1° Biennale de Sculpture, Fort Miot, Belfort, France. Journées Jeunes Créateurs, organisées par les revues “Art Press” et “Autrements”, Galerie Zabriskie, Paris, France. 1976 Assemblage, mise en espace de la “Téte Mécanique” de Raoul Haussmann, Musée National d‘Art Moderne, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. SELECTED COLLECTIONS FNAC, France FRAC Pays de Loire, France FRAC Champagne Ardennes, France FRAC Picardie, France, FRAC Haute Normandie, France FRAC Franche Comté, France FRAC Basse Normandie, France FRAC Alsace, France FRAC Auvergne, France Musée du Havre, France Musée de Belfort, France Musée Aurillac, France Maison Européenne de la Photographie, France Bibliothèque Nationale, France Centre National d’Art et de Culture George Pompidou, France Musée Réattu Arles, France Musée National d’Art Moderne, France Musée d’Art Moderne de Strasbourg, France Musée Cantini, Marseille, France Fondation Cartier, France Santa Barbara Museum Of Art, USA Baltimore Museum, USA Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA Collection Royale Belge, Belgium Collection de la Ville de Lannion, France Collection de la Ville de Vitry-sur-Seine, France Fonds Départemental d’Art Contemporain de Seine St Denis, France Artothèque Angers, France Artothèque Nantes, France Art Institute of Chicago, USA See less