Works
“From under the Hearth to the Sky”, Polaris Art Center, Istres, 2024.
An exhibition entitled “From Under the Earth to the Sky” on the artist’s dense and fertile links with the practice of drawing.
“Owner? Tenant?”, Huberty & Breyne Gallery, Brussels, 2023.
Brussels’ Huberty & Breyne gallery, a historic specialist in comics, invites Gilles Barbier in 2013. In four stations, everything is covered: comics from across the Atlantic and superheroes, the bubble, his relationship with language, the magazines of his adolescence, references to Morris, Uderzo and Goscinny…
“Production Machines”, Musée Soulages, Rodez, 2021.
Production Machines, 2021. Musée Soulage, Rodez. (Curator: Benoît Decron). In Rodez, we present installations, sculptures, models, gouaches... All of them spread out and rise up in the tightly-fitted space of the temporary exhibition room (height, volume,...
“Working on Sundays”, H.A.B. Gallery, Nantes, 2021.
Links: Copying the Dictionary, Pawns, Game of Life, Clones, Between the Joints, Language."Working on Sundays". (H.A.B. Gallery, Nantes) (...) I've always loved Sundays. Well, not really Sundays, but Friday evenings. My father used to say to me: "Thegreat thing about...
“Between, In, Behind, Under, On…”, Georges-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois Gallery, Paris, 2020.
"Between, In, Behind, Under, On...", 2020 (Georges-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois Gallery) For his latest exhibition at Galerie Georges-Philippe et Nathalie Vallois, Gilles Barbier presents a new series of large paintings: Entre, Dans, Derrière, Sous, Sur... [Between,...
Between the Joints, Language.
"Between the Joints, Language", 2021. (Exhibition: "Working on Sundays", HAB Gallery, Nantes). (...) Body and language have long been a continuum for me. Between the Joints, Langage is part of this dynamic. I've always been moved by the fact that a bone can break into...
“Laughing at Clouds”, The Chimney Gallery, Brooklyn, New-York, 2019.
Laughing at Clouds (Chimney Gallery, New York, 2019) In 2019, Clara Darrason and Jennifer Houdrouge, who run Chimney Gallery (Brooklyn NY), invited Gilles Barbier to occupy this unusual space, a place for experimentation par excellence, the opposite of Manhattan's...
“Echo System”, MMCA, Seoul, South Korea, 2016. Curated by Gaël Charbau.
"Echo System", 2016. MMCA, Seoul. Curator Gaël Charbau. Link to Echo System.
“Echo System”, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseilles, 2015. Curated by Gaël Charbau.
References: Inhabiting, Cauldrons, Treasures, Black Box, Black Drawings, Checkers, Pawns.Echo System, 2015. Friche Belle de Mai. Curator Gaël Charbau. The first part of this exhibition offers a retrospective journey through almost 25 years of Gilles Barbier's work....
The Black Box.
The Black Box, 2015. The Black Box consists of four turnstiles on which 96 " Black Drawings " are displayed. This series, begun in 2002, forms a whole that could be compared to a logbook, a notebook. The black drawings transcribe the speculations, questions,...
Checkers.
"Checkers", 2015. (Echo System exhibition, Panorama, Friche Belle de Mai). Checkers is played on a 64-square checkerboard, with 24 pawns, 12 on one side and 12 on the other, arranged in 3 rows of 4. The rules are: move diagonally, forwards, and when a pawn reaches the...
“Feasts”, Château du Plessis Fortia, Vendôme, by invitation of Monique Barbier-Mueller, 2014.
Links to Inhabiting, Pawns, Cabins, End of Illusions.Exhibition at Château du Plessis Fortia, 2014. In 2014, Monique Barbier Mueller gave Gilles Barbier carte blanche to think up an exhibition at her château in Plessis Fortia. A few months later, when the first guests...
The Feast Table II.
Inhabiting (The Feast Table II). Museum of Modern Art, Paris, 2014. Link to "Inhabiting" (sculptures).
Game Of Life.
Link to preparatory drawings.The Game Of Life Polygamous trajectories In 1992, exchanging intentionality for chance, Gilles Barbier infused his activities with a singular guidance system. A multitude of operative processes were unleashed via a checkerboard on the...
“The Rink”, Villa Arson, Nice, 2009.
Links to Banana Riders, Cheese.The Rink, 2009. (...) Gliding is naturally linked to surf and skate culture; that's how I approached it and practiced it relentlessly. Today, however, I see it more as a way of thinking, a way of lubricating contradictions and...
“The Cockpit, the Ship, the View from the Porthole”, Espace Claude Berri, Paris, 2008.
"The Cockpit, the Ship, the View from the Porthole". Espace Claude Berri, Paris, 2008. All Gilles Barbier is in this exhibition title: we are carried away by a vertiginous nautilus and watch the state of the world from its cockpit. The world? The great shipwreck, a...
“Gilles Barbier” exhibition, Carré d’Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nîmes, 2006.
In 2006, Françoise Cohen, then director of the Carré d’Art in Nîmes, invited Gilles Barbier. He proposed an elliptical, slippery journey through ten years of production.
“Der Betrunkene”, Kunstverein, Freiburg, Germany, 2004.
Link to "Clones" (sculptures)."Der Betrunkene. Kunstverein, Freiburg. 2004 In 2004, Gilles Barbier began one of his most prolific Production Machines: the "Black Drawings". He has only been working on this series for a few years, but already has a sufficient number of...