Cesar pierre restany biography
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Pierre Restany
French art critic and cultural philosopher
Pierre Restany (22 June 1930 – 29 May 2003), was an internationally known French art critic and cultural philosopher.
Restany was born in Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda, Pyrénées-Orientales, and spent his childhood in Casablanca. On returning to France in 1949 he attended the Lycée Henri-IV before studying at universities in France, Italy and Ireland. From their first meeting in 1955, Restany maintained a strong tie with Yves Klein (to whom is attributed Klein-blue).[1]
Conceptions of New Realism / Nouveau Realisme
[edit]In 1960 Pierre Restany created the idea and coined the term Nouveau Réalisme[2] with Yves Klein during a group show in the Apollinaire gallery in Milan. It was an idea that united a group of French and Italian artists.[3] Nouveau Realisme was the European answer to the American Neo-Dada of Fluxus and Pop Art. The group included Martial Raysse, Arman, Yves Klein, Fra
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Description
ORIGINAL EDITION OF THIS MONUMENTAL BIOGRAPHY OF CÉSAR, illustrated with rich iconography from the archives of Denyse Durand-Ruel.
The first page features a large, highly accomplished piece of original artwork Compressed paper cube- mixed technique, 270 x 280 mm: crumpled paper, stamp, pencil and wax - signed César, Nice 1975 and dedicated to Madame Bazaine.
César was no slouch when it came to dedicating his drawings; on the other hand, he was much rarer when it came to producing highly elaborate works for catalogues, reserving them for close friends and family, in this case the entourage of the painter Jean Bazaine.
Bound in publisher's original unbleached cloth with black titles on spine and front cover, illustrated dust jacket, protective cardboard slipcase.
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César
César Baldaccini
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César is one of the greatest French sculptors of the post-war period, whose creative period is closely identified with that of the Trente Glorieuses. In 1954, he developed welded irons; in 1959, what Pierre Restany called the "creative gesture" with compressions; then came impressions, including variations on the thumb, his thumb, the thumb of a sculptor who had never modelled - humour and derision - in all materials and all dimensions. Later, at the end of the 1960s, he will be interested on expansions and casts, and finally, in 1971, the extremely rare envelopments. From then on, variations, developments and returns to these periods would make this artist, "guided by the logic of the material", one of the most important of his generation.
It was in 1952, on the advice of friends, that César learnt to weld and began to create shapes made from materials salvaged from breakers' yards, enabling him to continue creating for next to nothing at a t