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基本説明
Catalogue raisonné.
Full Description
Germaine Richier, the first woman to have an exhibition of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris (1956), is a remarkable figure in the world of modern sculpture, whose works are present in the world's most prestigious museums, including the Centre Pompidou, MoMA and the Tate Modern. Her powerful and visionary art stands out in its profound desire to explore the human essence, the constant search for an authentic representation of mankind, likening it, indeed, to the work of her friend Alberto Giacometti. The Second World War had a shattering impact on the artistic and intellectual world of the Montparnasse of the 1920s and '30s; Germaine Richier spent the war years far from her family, in the native Switzerland of her husband, sculptor Otto Charles Bänninger. This painful exile would be one of the crucial turning points in the transformation of her art. Trained in the painstaking school of the bust by her teacher Antoine Bourdelle, she chose to stray from the beaten track, to invent something new. Natural elements - tree branches or insects - from the countryside of her native Languedoc merged into her creations: this was the origin of her "hybrid creatures". The originality of her sculpture, of her forms, manifested itself with increasing intensity. In 1946, she decided to return to France, driven by the need to be reunited with her family and her country. With her return to Paris, her creative freedom underwent a veritable explosion: her sculptures came to embody daring, innovative and original representations of Man and Woman, which, as they come to life, reveal new visions of the human condition. The sculptor was captured in her studio by her friend, the photographer Brassaï, surrounded by characters that seem to originate in some fantastic kingdom: L'Homme-forêt, L'Araignée, La Mante and La Cigale co-exist with L'Ogre, Le Diabolo, La Feuille and Don Quichotte. These hybrid creatures, these new characters, fruit of a fervent imagination, populate her artistic universe, where the human form is transformed and enriched with mystery and colour, an element that Germaine Richier began incorporating into her works in the final years of her life, interrupted far too soon in 1959. Her sculpture is a world in constant evolution, a place where the figure never disappears but rather is reinvented, mutates, evading all attempts at classification. And her thought-provoking, visually stunning works continue to plumb the depths of the world around us.
This work is accompanied by a booklet that provides a list of 687 exhibitions and more than 4,000 bibliographic references.
Contents
VOLUME 1
Foreword
Sophie Guiter
Preface
Jean-Louis Prat
Introduction
Françoise Guiter
BIOGRAPHY
AROUND THE STUDIO
PROCEDURES AND TECHNIQUES IN THE SCULPTURE OF GERMAINE RICHIER
A. WORKS WITH ORIGINAL EDITION
1. Works created in clay - Works enlarged in clay - The original plaster - The bronze and patina - The original edition
a. Works created in clay
b. Enlarged works in clay
c. The original plaster
The lost mould method for making the original plaster of a work created in clay and a work enlarged in clay
d. Bronze and patina
e. The original edition
The sand casting and lost-wax casting processes for making an original edition
2. Works created in plaster mixed with tow - The original edition
3. Works created in wax - The original edition
4. The founders
5. About stamping
B. UNIQUE WORKS
1. The Plombs
2. The Seiches
About the équerres
ABOUT THE MAKING OF THE BASES
EDITIONS ARTA
WORKS FROM 1916 TO 1946
Note regarding the catalogue of the sculpted work
Sophie Guiter
Entries
Alphabetical list of original editions created by Germaine Richier from 1916 to 1946. Study of the identified casts covering the artist's period of activity and the one produced after her death and up to 2014.
Alphabetical list of works in volume I
