ANNE AND PATRICK POIRIER
ANNE AND PATRICK POIRIER
Biography
Anne and Patrick Poirier are among the most famous couples on 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 were artists in residence at the Villa Medici in Rome (1968-1972), at invitation of the former director Balthus. From the very beginning of the residency program they decided to unite their artistic vision and sign their works together. Traveling and discovering the world since the ‘60s, they belong to a generation of artists who have developed a fascination for cities and ancient civilizations – in particular, the process of their disappearance. Thus, they are not isolated artists searching for a personal language of expression in their atelier but travelers, surveyors of archaeological sites, discoverers of civilizations, religions and different cultures. Born during the war (in 1943 Anne saw the bombing of Marseille’s port and Patrick lost his father during the destruction of Nantes) they explore the fragility of civilizations and cultures. Their aesthetic often follows that of fragmentation and ruin.
As multidisciplinary artists, they employ a wide range of creative means of expression: Anne and Patrick Poirier’s body of work includes plastics, sculptures and environmental installations, photographs, mixed media on paper, paintings and other visual fragments that deal with the fragility of life. In more than forty years of collaboration, their solo exhibitions have been held in some of the most important museums and cultural institutions: Château La Coste, Provence and Abbaye du Thoronet, Provence (2021), The French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici, Rome (2019), De Pont Museum, Tilburg and Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire (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 have taken part in numerous international events such as: the Havana Biennial (2006), Valencia Biennial (2003), Busan Biennale (2002), Lyon Biennale (2000), Istanbul Biennial (1987), documenta, Kassel (1977), Venice Biennale (1984, 1980, 1976). Since the beginning of 2017 they have been represented in Italy by Galleria Fumagalli, Milan. In the same year the gallery dedicated a solo exhibition to them, entitled Dystopia, and participated in the publication of the monograph “Anne et Patrick Poirier” (Flammarion editions) together with Maison Européenne de la Photographie and Galerie Mitterrand Paris. In 2021 they take part in the exhibition program MY30YEARS – Coherency in Diversity, curated by Lóránd Hegyi, which celebrates Annamaria Maggi’s 30-year-long career at the head of the gallery. The first exhibition, Architettura – Spazialità – Artefatto, puts the Poirier’s work in context with pieces by Marco Tirelli and Giuseppe Uncini.
Biography
Anne and Patrick Poirier are among the most famous couples on 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 were artists in residence at the Villa Medici in Rome (1968-1972), at invitation of the former director Balthus. From the very beginning of the residency program they decided to unite their artistic vision and sign their works together. Traveling and discovering the world since the ‘60s, they belong to a generation of artists who have developed a fascination for cities and ancient civilizations – in particular, the process of their disappearance. Thus, they are not isolated artists searching for a personal language of expression in their atelier but travelers, surveyors of archaeological sites, discoverers of civilizations, religions and different cultures. Born during the war (in 1943 Anne saw the bombing of Marseille’s port and Patrick lost his father during the destruction of Nantes) they explore the fragility of civilizations and cultures. Their aesthetic often follows that of fragmentation and ruin. As multidisciplinary artists, they employ a wide range of creative means of expression: Anne and Patrick Poirier’s body of work includes plastics, sculptures and environmental installations, photographs, mixed media on paper, paintings and other visual fragments that deal with the fragility of life.
In more than forty years of collaboration, their solo exhibitions have been held in some of the most important museums and cultural institutions: Château La Coste, Provence and Abbaye du Thoronet, Provence (2021), The French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici, Rome (2019), De Pont Museum, Tilburg and Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire (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 have taken part in numerous international events such as: the Havana Biennial (2006), Valencia Biennial (2003), Busan Biennale (2002), Lyon Biennale (2000), Istanbul Biennial (1987), documenta, Kassel (1977), Venice Biennale (1984, 1980, 1976). Since the beginning of 2017 they have been represented in Italy by Galleria Fumagalli, Milan. In the same year the gallery dedicated a solo exhibition to them, entitled Dystopia, and participated in the publication of the monograph “Anne et Patrick Poirier” (Flammarion editions) together with Maison Européenne de la Photographie and Galerie Mitterrand Paris. In 2021 they take part in the exhibition program MY30YEARS – Coherency in Diversity, curated by Lóránd Hegyi, which celebrates Annamaria Maggi’s 30-year-long career at the head of the gallery. The first exhibition, Architettura – Spazialità – Artefatto, puts the Poirier’s work in context with pieces by Marco Tirelli and Giuseppe Uncini.
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 AND PATRICK POIRIER
Dystopia
Opening 21 September 2017
22 September to 20 December 2017
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
ANNE AND PATRICK POIRIER
Dystopia
Opening 21 September 2017
22 September to 20 December 2017
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Institutions
Institutions
