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- Curated by
- Vicenç Altaió i Glòria Picazo
Construction by Jacques Vieille
Press release
Exhibition: Construction by Jacques Vieille
Fundació Joan Miró’s Espai 10, Taste and Differences season
Dates: 4 December 1985 to 5 January 1986
Opening: Wednesday 4 December at 7.30 pm
An exhibition of the artist Jacques Vieille will open at the Fundació Joan Miró’s Espai 10 on 4 December as part of its Taste and Differences season, organised in collaboration with the art critic Glòria Picazo and the writer Vicenç Altaió.
Jacques Vieille (Baden-Baden, FRG, 1948) is a German artist who lives and works in Clessé, near Lyon. He is currently exhibiting in Barcelona after appearing at the Nouveau Musée de Lyon (1982), the Galeries Contemporaines at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (1984) and in many group exhibitions, including this year’s Paris Biennale.
In 1980, he began a series of works on the theme of the column, which he associated with a tree trunk, using silkscreen paper to evoke the branches of the tree. The columns were in turn made of wood: from slats, planks, branches, etc. The project culminated with the creation of an entire forest in the rooms of the Chalon-sur-Saône cultural centre in 1983, using ten thousand metres of slats.
This desire to construct is also evident in his most recent installations, where the idea of assembling monumental constructions from everyday objects such as tables, car tyres or wooden trestles has become more consolidated.
Jacques Vieille has stated that he would have liked to be an architect, a desire that can be felt in his installations and appreciated in the work he is presenting in Espai 10, where a monumental pyramid of wooden trestles will occupy the space from floor to ceiling, materially occupying it all.
NOTE: The artist will be present at the Fundació Joan Miró on 2, 3 and 4 December to facilitate any contact with the press.
Barcelona, 19 November 1985
