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Pascal Convert

09.24.04 - 10.17.04
Exhibition — Couvent des Jacobins

Madone de Bentalha, 2001-2002

Exhibition view, Couvent des Jacobins, Toulouse, 2004
After Massacre at Bentalha, photograph by Hocine Zaouar, 1997 - Sculpture in polychrome wax 1.60 (h) x 2.35 x 1.5 m - Sculptors: Claus Velte and Eric de Saint Chaffray
Collection Mudam, Luxembourg
© Printemps de Septembre, photo André Morin

Pascal Convert, exhibition view, Couvent des Jacobins, Toulouse, 2005
© Printemps de Septembre, photo André Morin

Pascal Convert, Untitled, exhibition view, Couvent des Jacobins, Toulouse, 2004
After « Veillée Funèbre au Kosovo » (Georges Mérillon/ Gamma, 1990), 1999-2000 - Sculpture in polychrome wax, copper - 224 x 278 x 40 cm - Sculptors : Claus Velte et Eric Saint Chaffray
Collection Fonds national d'art contemporain, Puteaux
© Printemps de Septembre, photo André Morin

Born 1957 in Bayonne (France), he lives in Biarritz (France).

 

At the heart of Pascal Convert's visual "objects" we find the questions of memory and forgetting. Linking politics, history and aesthetics, his rigorous work represents a singular combination of the most traditional techniques (casts, imprints, sculpture) and the latest imaging technologies (video, computer, digital animation). Whether its medium is sculpture or film, Convert's work is about current events and the systems of representation in TV and journalism. Through this multiplicity of forms, materials (wax, glass, projected images), Convert moves between primitive creative gestures and hi tech, between the effect of time and timelessness, between public space and private.

 

In addition to three recent sculpture-images, Pascal Convert presents a new video work conceived specially for the exhibition in the Jacobins refectory.

Commissioned by the Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris.