Gilles Barbier Interviews Facsimiles

Gilles Barbier is one of the most important French artists, most original of his generation. He produces writing with a unique tone, objects/sculptures, paintings and drawings tinged with laughter and grimaces, pantomimes and ceremonies with funereal pleasures. An artist encyclopedic of his time, between clamor and poetry. Gilles Barbier is one of the most important French artists, most original of his generation. He produces writing with a unique tone, objects/sculptures, paintings and drawings tinged with laughter and grimaces, pantomimes and ceremonies with funereal pleasures. An artist encyclopedic of its time, between clamor and poetry. A work that persists less about finding ourselves than about losing ourselves, carried by this part of us which escapes and which is both our truth and our prison. A work, finally, whose formal richness is not the least of its qualities. Held between 1995 and 2006, Interviews, relates the links which unite Gilles Barbier to a number intellectuals, artists, scientists from all over the world... with whom he seems to correspond to everyday life, delivering the quintessence of their thoughts while by drawing them in order to better fix them in the memory. An intimate book if ever there was one is, Gilles Barbier finally agrees to publish it, for the use of initiates, hence the limited edition of five hundred numbered copies.