“From under the Earth to the Sky”.

There’s a lot of Gilles Barbier in this sculpture, as it tells us about his obsession with linking and untying apparent contradictions. But above all, this emblematic sculpture highlights the essential position occupied by drawing in this artist’s work; a veritable sap that irrigates the great body of his work, from its deep roots to its canopy. The drawing that germinates in the humus of the first drafts, then unfurls and coils on the ascending strata that lead to the finished work, where all the accumulated energy is concentrated.

In three rooms, the exhibition features drafts, sketches, notebooks, preparatory drawings and studies, as well as large-scale works on paper or polyester, from series that mark out thirty years of work in a journey as generous as it is jubilant.