ANNE AND PATRICK POIRIER
ANNE AND PATRICK POIRIER
Biography
Anne and Patrick Poirier are among the most famous couples of the international art scene: their creative symbiosis developed at the Villa Medici in Rome more than 50 years ago. Anne was born in 1941 in Marseille and Patrick in 1942 in Nantes. Winners of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1967, after studying at the École nationale supérieure des Arts décoratifs, Anne and Patrick are artists in residence at the Villa Medici in Rome (1968-1972) invited by the former director Balthus. Since the beginning of this experience they decide to unite their artistic vision singing together this works. Part of a generation of artists that traveling and opening to the world since the ‘60s developed a fascination for cities and ancient civilizations, in particular for the processes of disappearance, they are no long individual artists working in their atelier searching for a personal language but travelers, surveyors of archaeological sites, discoverers of civilizations, religions and different cultures. Born during the war (in 1943 Anne saw the bombing in Marseille’s port and Patrick lost his father during the destruction of Nantes) they affirm the fragility of civilizations and cultures, and their aesthetic is often that of fragment and ruin. As multidisciplinary artists, they do not refuse any means of expression: Anne and Patrick Poirier’s entire body of works includes plastics, sculptures and environmental installations, photographs, works on paper, paintings and other visual fragments concerning the fragility of life.
In more than forty years of shared work, their personal exhibitions have been held in the most important museums and cultural institutions: france Accademy in Rome – Villa Medici, Rome (2019), De Pont Museum, Tilburg (2018), Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (2017), Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal and Museé d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Étienne (2016), Musée Jean Cocteau, Menton (2015), Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo (2013), Museum of Contemporary Art Donna Regina, Naples (2011), Villa Medicea La Magia, Quarrata (2006), Kunstmuseum, Thun (2003), The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles and Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne (1999), Museum Moderner Kunst Ludwig, Vienna (1994), Maison de la Culture, Grenoble (1985), The Brooklyn Museum, New York and Chiesa di San Carpoforo, Milan (1984), Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, Paris (1983), MoMA PS1, New York (1980), MoMA, New York (1979), Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1978), CAPC, Bordeaux and Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (1977), Neue Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aix-la-Chapelle (1973). They took part in numerous international events such as: La Havana Biennial (2006), Valencia Biennial (2003), Busan Biennial (2002), Lyon Biennial (2000), Istanbul Biennial (1987), Documenta, Kassel (1977 ), Venice Biennale (1984, 1980, 1976).
Among the group exhibitions held in institutions: Palazzo Fortuny, Venice and Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire (2018), The Parkview Museum, Singapore (2017), Grand Palais, Paris (2016), MACRO, Rome (2012), Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (2011), Musée de Picardie, Amiens (2009), Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal and Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels (2008), Centro Luigi Pecci, Prato (2007), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen (2006), Mak, Vienna (2004), Chelsea Art Museum, New York and Ludwig Museum, Budapest (2003), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires (2002), Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne (1999), Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (1998), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1997), Center of Modern Art, Lisbon (1996), Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland (1990), Kunstlerhaus, Vienna (1987), Kunsthalle, Berlin and Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (1982), Centre Pompidou, Paris and Muséum of Modern Art, Toyama (1981), Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (1980), Art Institute of Chicago (1977), CAPC, Bordeaux (1976), Kunstverein, Hamburg (1974), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux (1973). At the beginning of 2017 they started to collaborate with Galleria Fumagalli in Milan and their first personal show “Dystopia” took place in the same year.
Biography
Anne and Patrick Poirier are among the most famous couples of the international art scene: their creative symbiosis developed at the Villa Medici in Rome more than 50 years ago. Anne was born in 1941 in Marseille and Patrick in 1942 in Nantes. Winners of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1967, after studying at the École nationale supérieure des Arts décoratifs, Anne and Patrick are artists in residence at the Villa Medici in Rome (1968-1972) invited by the former director Balthus. Since the beginning of this experience they decide to unite their artistic vision singing together this works. Part of a generation of artists that traveling and opening to the world since the ‘60s developed a fascination for cities and ancient civilizations, in particular for the processes of disappearance, they are no long individual artists working in their atelier searching for a personal language but travelers, surveyors of archaeological sites, discoverers of civilizations, religions and different cultures. Born during the war (in 1943 Anne saw the bombing in Marseille’s port and Patrick lost his father during the destruction of Nantes) they affirm the fragility of civilizations and cultures, and their aesthetic is often that of fragment and ruin. As multidisciplinary artists, they do not refuse any means of expression: Anne and Patrick Poirier’s entire body of works includes plastics, sculptures and environmental installations, photographs, works on paper, paintings and other visual fragments concerning the fragility of life.
In more than forty years of shared work, their personal exhibitions have been held in the most important museums and cultural institutions: france Accademy in Rome – Villa Medici, Rome (2019), De Pont Museum, Tilburg (2018), Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (2017), Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal and Museé d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Étienne (2016), Musée Jean Cocteau, Menton (2015), Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo (2013), Museum of Contemporary Art Donna Regina, Naples (2011), Villa Medicea La Magia, Quarrata (2006), Kunstmuseum, Thun (2003), The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles and Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne (1999), Museum Moderner Kunst Ludwig, Vienna (1994), Maison de la Culture, Grenoble (1985), The Brooklyn Museum, New York and Chiesa di San Carpoforo, Milan (1984), Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, Paris (1983), MoMA PS1, New York (1980), MoMA, New York (1979), Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1978), CAPC, Bordeaux and Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (1977), Neue Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aix-la-Chapelle (1973). They took part in numerous international events such as: La Havana Biennial (2006), Valencia Biennial (2003), Busan Biennial (2002), Lyon Biennial (2000), Istanbul Biennial (1987), Documenta, Kassel (1977 ), Venice Biennale (1984, 1980, 1976).
Among the group exhibitions held in institutions: Palazzo Fortuny, Venice and Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire (2018), The Parkview Museum, Singapore (2017), Grand Palais, Paris (2016), MACRO, Rome (2012), Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (2011), Musée de Picardie, Amiens (2009), Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal and Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels (2008), Centro Luigi Pecci, Prato (2007), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen (2006), Mak, Vienna (2004), Chelsea Art Museum, New York and Ludwig Museum, Budapest (2003), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires (2002), Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne (1999), Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (1998), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1997), Center of Modern Art, Lisbon (1996), Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland (1990), Kunstlerhaus, Vienna (1987), Kunsthalle, Berlin and Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (1982), Centre Pompidou, Paris and Muséum of Modern Art, Toyama (1981), Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (1980), Art Institute of Chicago (1977), CAPC, Bordeaux (1976), Kunstverein, Hamburg (1974), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux (1973). At the beginning of 2017 they started to collaborate with Galleria Fumagalli in Milan and their first personal show “Dystopia” took place in the same year.
Works
Works
Press
Le Quotidien de l’Art
12 September 2017
“Anne & Patrick Poirier, photographes de l’intranquillité”
Press
Le Quotidien de l’Art
12 September 2017
“Anne & Patrick Poirier, photographes de l’intranquillité”
Exhibition
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
ANNE E PATRICK POIRIER
Dystopia
Opening 21 September 2017
22 September to 20 December 2017
Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
ANNE E PATRICK POIRIER
Dystopia
Opening 21 September 2017
22 September to 20 December 2017
Institutions
Institutions
