Exhibitions
Charles Ray at the Bourse de Commerce and at the Center Pompidou
Paris has an appointment with the strange, this look close to reality that a change of scale, a disproportion, a contrast between the subject and the title, an antinomy between the character and the material that composes it make uncomfortable for the viewer. 'eye.
The fiberglass, steel blue, smashed car,
Unpainted Sculpture
, 1997, is as fragile as porcelain.
The scrapped truck,
Unbaled Truck
, 2021, has been unfolded and restored to its original volume, covered in scars like old sun-scarred skin.
Revered by the small planet Art, little known to the general public, especially French, the American Charles Ray, 69, is an art bohemian with his gray curls under the eternal woolen cap (
All My Clothes,
1973, humorous series of self-portraits in which he stages his repetitive wardrobe).
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