Max Cartier

the artist has the physique of a young first, not surprising when he began his professional life as an actor and his first film (now legendary) was "Rocco and his brothers" by Luchino Visconti where he is the partner of 'Alain DELON and Annie GIRARDOT. He then turns in many films (all remained famous): The assassin of Marcello Mastroiani, the king of the crooks with Ernest Borgnine, Giuliano with Franscesco Rosi...

Subsequently, Max CARTIER opens a restaurant in Nice where we meet DELON, BRIALI, Paul Newman and all the stars of the 60s and then he has the opportunity to discover sculpture and it is, for him, a revelation. . From 1965, he worked and exhibited. His themes are the most diverse: cocottes in fabrics in 65, legs in 70, plaster, pewter and mirrors in 75, masks in 79, eggs in 80, the school of chairs in 84, armchairs in fabrics in 86, stoves in 87, entwined men in 90, men of stone in 91, men of iron in 92… Max CARTIER is constantly evolving.
You have to see him working in a quarry, full sun, in the hinterland of Nice to understand that there is no bluff in this artist. He extracts the stones, shapes them slightly to keep them raw and millennial and assembles them, making fun of their weight, in order to proud them in his twisted iron nets.