Cesar baldaccini biography

César, also occasionally referred to as César Baldaccini, was a noted French sculptor.
César (born January 1, 1921, Marseille, France—died December 6, 1998, Paris) was a French sculptor who was at the forefront of the New Realism.
César (born Cesare Baldaccini; 1 January 1921 – 6 December 1998), also occasionally referred to as César Baldaccini was a noted French sculptor.

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Baldaccini César

"I go wondering until I meet something foreign."

+ Coup de coeur

"Coup de coeur" by Baldaccini César

Petit Valentin - Mai 2011

En 1956, César a été frappé par la mort de Léo Valentin, surnommé “l’homme-oiseau”, un Icare des temps modernes qui s’est tué lors d’un saut en parachute durant un meeting aérien à Liverpool.

Dans l’usine de Villetaneuse, l’artiste développe alors une série de personnages en fer soudé, prolongés d’une ou deux longues ailes, évoquant les ailes de bois dont s’équipait le parachutiste pour effectuer ses “chutes planées”.

Par leur parti pris frontal, ces sculptures marquent un tournant dans l'oeuvre de l'artiste. Ce glissement de la figuration (la figure humaine) vers l'abstraction (l'aile) annonce les plaques-reliefs et enfin les compressions.

Le corps presque sans tête, comme soufflé par une déflagration, se prolonge en une aile qui se définit comme un tableau abstrait. Dans ce refus de la composition traditionnelle, César atteint là le sommet de son langage. L’aile est montée comme un collage, où les éléments ne

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Biography

Born Cesare Baldaccini known as César; 1 January 1921 – Died 6 December 1998

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021
'Hommage à César', Château de Boisgeloup, France.

2019

'César, Faces à Faces', Musée d’Art Contemporain, Château des Adhéra, Montélimar, France.

2017

'César, La rétrospective', Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.

2016

'César in context', Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, USA.

2015

'César, une histoire méditerranéenne', Musée Mohammed VI, Rabat, Morroco.

2013

'César à Marseille', Musée Cantini, Marseille, France.

'César', Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, USA.

2011

'César, Gold Spirit', Sorry We’re Closed Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.

2008

'César, Anthologie par Jean Nouvel', Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris,

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César (César Baldaccini)

born 1921 in Marseille, died in Paris on June 12, 1998. The French sculptor and object artist César was born as César Baldaccini. From 1935 to 1939 he studied at the Marseille Academy of Art, and from 1943 to 1947 at the academy in Paris. Among other artists, he meets Pablo Picasso, Germaine Richier, and Alberto Giacometti, and even lived in the same house as Giacometti. At the end of the 1940s, César completed his first sculptures made of plaster and iron. In the traditions of Picasso and González, from 1956 onward César welds pieces of scrap metal to imaginative, figurative or partially figurative sculptural works. From 1960 onward, during the Nouveau Réalisme period, he created his «Compressions dirigées» (car chassis or metal objects of all kinds crushed in hydraulic presses). In the 1960s, influenced by Pop Art, César also worked with colorful plastics and created from these ironic, fetish-related objects using molding techniques.