Works

Link to the Mega Model.Copy of the dictionary (Petit Larousse Illustré, 1966). Gilles Barbier has been copying the 1966 edition of the Petit Larousse Illustré dictionary since the early 90s. The origin of this work lies in a conceptual device, the Game of Life,...

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Meditation on the Front Page. Painting is a fantasy. Despite its predicted deaths, whether chronic or cerebral, it always ends up coming back, like a ghost. This ghost had already haunted Gilles Barbier's work with the Hawaiian Ghosts where the shroud, the last...

Link to "Between, In, Behind, Under, On... (Exhibition views).Between, In, Behind, Under, On...

Link to Metaphysical Suite.The Treasure (I & II, 2013 - 2018). Treasure is always something enormous, even when it's very small! What I mean is that, as treasure, it goes beyond its rational contours to encompass the whole field of fantasy, desire and hope,...

Links to: Shipwrecks, Book of Shipwrecks.The Shipwreck (2009-2010) After the Cockpit and the Blender Gilles barbier developed The Shipwreck. It's the first time this title appears clearly in his work. His brother had just died suddenly in a surfing accident, and he...

Metaphysical Suite. The Metaphysical Suite comprises a large number of paintings (gouache and Posca on paper or polyester). The 140 x 250 cm formats, sometimes forming diptychs or polyptychs, can result in very large works (The Treasure, Cellular Automaton, Monde...

Soups Collage is the technique of assembling flat pictorial elements on a flat support to create a flat composition. Soup is putting anything in anything with any kind of binder, and shaking vigorously. Link to Cauldrons.  

Black drawings (selection) (...) I also see the program as a challenge to time. It allows me to satisfy both my bulimia and my need for rumination. For example, the black drawings I've been doing for so long come out of a precise program. Their format is defined, as...

Equilibrium (...) I have a special relationship with books. I've been disturbed enough to copy the dictionary for over thirty years. But books are also libraries. The elevation, the construction, the arrangement. (...) But nothing ever fits, and all my attempts to...

Link to Shipwrecks.Hawaiian ghosts Ghosts don't just wear white sheets. If, in Scotland or in pale countries, the ghost drags his misery under pale liceuls, in Oceania he is adorned with colors and hibiscus... Beneath the sumptuous drapery may lie flip-flops... Gilles...

What came out of the hat today. If you want your ideas to be clean, , change them like your shirt. F. Picabia Over the past thirty years, Gilles Barbier has produced more than 1,000 statements. By "statement", he means a short sentence that may or may not, in its...

Cauldrons, 2010. Gilles had bought three large copper cauldrons. Two of them were destined for the sculptures being worked on in the studio, the third was lying around. He started sketching it in his notebooks, with lots of stuff in it. He then reworked these sketches...

Communication stations. Electrical connections in hanks and balls, cables radiating anarchically from their supports. They can be found wherever the earth trembles, particularly in Japan. A manifestation of what, in our latitudes, goes on underground. But this...

Melting Pictures. Although his paintings belong to the Metaphysical Suite they form a distinct and easily identifiable sub-group (like the Vanishing Pictures). The Melting Pictures are characterized by an approach in which the excess of desire for paint, now pure...

Links : Metaphysical Suite, Melting Pictures.Vanishing Pictures In the sustained greyness of these gouaches, one sensation prevails: effacement. Barely delivered to our gaze, these images gleaned from the large canvas are torn from the comfort of evidence to serve...

Almost a hero. Superheroes are special in that they all have a superpower. This singularity, which sets them apart from common humanity, in turn makes them short. So short that we immediately identify them by name, by costume. They have no other identity than the...