B Baschet

Bernard Baschet (1917 France 2015) is a renowned international abstract sculptor. His sculptural work is less known than his inventions and his musical sculptures of crystal and metal, because in 1952 he invented the famous Cristal Baschet. In 1966 the personal exhibition Baschet at the Moma Museum of Modern Art of New York lasts four months, attracts the general public and obtains a great impact with his concert at The White House for the President of the United States, it is extended at public request. by a tour of exhibitions of the largest museums in the United States.

The doors of the great art collections are then and since very wide open to him. This year 1966 Baschet sculpts the 15 metal sculptures-dresses of the famous film “Who are you Polly Magoo?" Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musée Arts Décoratifs Paris. In 1975 his “Instrumentarium" revolutionizes musical education in France and soon in the States States, the Guggenheim Foundation solicited it, with success on both continents, and it was thus that at the Olympiades des Arts in Paris that I organized in 1992, children and forty-somethings with no musical training played spontaneously, suddenly immersed in the universe of their childhood, on these musical kinetic sculptures from 1952 or on the 14 musical instruments of "The Instrumentarium" of 1975, already so familiar, witnesses of the sound echoes of the world, an invitation to play in bright colors. Shows Museum Film and Music Prize Discography 1958 Record Grand Prize 1962 1963 1964 Museum of Decorative Arts Paris, “Design" “The object" 1965 Finish Design Center, Helsinki Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Kanstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway. 1966 Museum of Modern Art in New York MOMA, 4 months, USA. United States museum tour. Museo di Ciencias y Artes, Mexico City, Mexico. 1966 "Who are You Polly Magoo?" Creation, manufacture, exhibition of 15 BASCHET Dress-Sculptures", Hand-carved aluminum sculptures using the origami technique for the William Klein Film. 1967 Maison Culture d'Amiens, France 1968 Olympiad of the Arts Olympic Games, Exhibition of 240 Sculptures, Mexico City, Mexico.

“HEMISPHAIR" San Antonio, TX, USA. 1968 Museum of Modern Art City of Paris France 1969 Arts Club, Chicago, USA. 1970 Expo 70, Universal Exhibition, Osaka, Japan. 1971 Palais Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium. Kunsthalle Cologne, Germany. 1972 Museums Germany, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen. Stadhaus Hamm, Kunsthalle Wolfsburg. Landesmuseum Munster Akademie der Kunste Berlin. Bottcherstrasse, Bramen. 1973 Museums Denmark Kanstforening Lyndgby-Taarbek, Copenhagen. Kanstforening, Aarhus. 1973 Orleans Culture House 1974 Chartres Museum. Narbonne and Blois museums.

1975 Fontevrault Abbey Museum 1976 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. House of Culture, Tournai, Belgium. University of Liège, Belgium. House of Culture Nivelle, Belgium. 1978 National Israel Museum, Jerusalem. 1979 Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain. 1981 Museum Bellerive, Zürich, Switzerland. 1982 Wodsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. USA. 1983 Barbican Conservatory Gallery, London, England. Osaka Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, etc. 1982 Queen of Denmark inaugurates Baschet show, President Mitterrand offers her a Baschet sculpture.

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In 1991 1992, during the Olympiades des Arts de Paris, an international event under the aegis of President Mitterrand and the Mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac, Bernard Baschet was selected with his brother François, whose sculptural work is different, to represent the France during the Arts Olympiad organized by the Lise Cormery Gallery, for the CNOSF, French National Olympic and Sports Committee, on the occasion of the Winter Olympics. Solo Shows CNIT La Défense, INSEP Campus, Lise Cormery Gallery, Paris. 2000 Historical exhibition 1952-2000 Tribute, Cité Musée de la Musique and Galerie Lise Cormery, Paris. 2011 Solo Show “Bernard BASCHET Gilles CORMERY (1950-1999) Masters of the Post-War School of Paris"   2013 Inauguration of the Baschet St Michel Sur Orge Essonne Conservatory.