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Jean-Paul Réti is considered in sculpture as the pioneer of “Earth seen from the sky”. This is evidenced by his first large pieces exhibited in Paris in 1975 at the Beaux-Arts and in Rome in 1982, then in the US and Japan. An award took him to Villa Medici, a “Fulbright, in the USA, and another in Japan. His pieces are in Italy, the USA, Germany, Japan and of course in France. (François Pinault, Samuel Hoi, Pascal Bonafoux, etc.) He is interested in the “root” of things and expresses it through half-pictorial, half-sculptural works, often with urban themes. Since then and without stopping, he has built pieces most often wall-mounted where volumes and cast shadows are associated. The combination of the two is seen by the spectator as if in flight. The sculptor's wish is to suggest to us that in our real space there is "neither top nor bottom" (1). The horizon fades away, since this sculptor makes us observe the Earth as it is: an object moving in space without our reassuring landmarks such as the horizon line, the vertical or the horizontal. These wall panels are floor samples. Even hung on the walls we understand that it is the floor, since these panels bear recognizable signs; a tree, an architecture, even basements. Even the rare sculptures on the ground echo this vision. Such as the piece entitled: “Writing case, magnetic table” (Homage to Edward Hopper). Jean-Paul Réti places the observer (and himself) virtually “above” the observed situation. This way of seeing and showing is probably linked to two outstanding moments of his childhood. Very young - he says - he was able to observe, thanks to his father's microscope, a world "seen from above" by optics, but also a hidden world. Then came the first photos of the whole round Earth, in its truth, seen by satellites. (2) These micro- or macroscopic images change the look on the ground, reverse vision for some, natural for others. Showing this as obvious is the path chosen by Reti. (1) Giordano Bruno from the 17th century demonstrated that the Earth floats in an infinite space, "without top or bottom" and is not the center of the Universe. This affirmation led him to the stake… (2) “The goal of art is not only the satisfaction of personal needs, nor even the representation of philosophical or religious ideas, but also the creation of a synthetic world. and consistent with itself through images that tell us something about the Universe, nature, man and the artist himself. "(Edouard O. Wilson," The Unicity of Knowledge ")
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Sculpture, Sol sous-sol, Jean-Paul Réti

Sol sous-sol

Jean-Paul Réti

Sculpture - 17.7 x 10.2 x 7.9 inch

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Jean-Paul Réti is considered in sculpture as the pioneer of “Earth seen from the sky”. This is evidenced by his first large pieces exhibited in Paris in 1975 at the Beaux-Arts and in Rome in 1982, then in the US and Japan. An award took him to Villa Medici, a “Fulbright, in the USA, and another in Japan. His pieces are in Italy, the USA, Germany, Japan and of course in France. (François Pinault, Samuel Hoi, Pascal Bonafoux, etc.) He is interested in the “root” of things and expresses it through half-pictorial, half-sculptural works, often with urban themes. Since then and without stopping, he has built pieces most often wall-mounted where volumes and cast shadows are associated. The combination of the two is seen by the spectator as if in flight. The sculptor's wish is to suggest to us that in our real space there is "neither top nor bottom" (1). The horizon fades away, since this sculptor makes us observe the Earth as it is: an object moving in space without our reassuring landmarks such as the horizon line, the vertical or the horizontal. These wall panels are floor samples. Even hung on the walls we understand that it is the floor, since these panels bear recognizable signs; a tree, an architecture, even basements. Even the rare sculptures on the ground echo this vision. Such as the piece entitled: “Writing case, magnetic table” (Homage to Edward Hopper). Jean-Paul Réti places the observer (and himself) virtually “above” the observed situation. This way of seeing and showing is probably linked to two outstanding moments of his childhood. Very young - he says - he was able to observe, thanks to his father's microscope, a world "seen from above" by optics, but also a hidden world. Then came the first photos of the whole round Earth, in its truth, seen by satellites. (2) These micro- or macroscopic images change the look on the ground, reverse vision for some, natural for others. Showing this as obvious is the path chosen by Reti. (1) Giordano Bruno from the 17th century demonstrated that the Earth floats in an infinite space, "without top or bottom" and is not the center of the Universe. This affirmation led him to the stake… (2) “The goal of art is not only the satisfaction of personal needs, nor even the representation of philosophical or religious ideas, but also the creation of a synthetic world. and consistent with itself through images that tell us something about the Universe, nature, man and the artist himself. "(Edouard O. Wilson," The Unicity of Knowledge ")

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When was Jean-Paul Réti born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1946