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Monozygote

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Quentin Garel was born in Paris in 1975. Son of the sculptor Philippe Garel, he graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1998. He was a resident at the Casa de Velázquez (Madrid, Spain) from 1998 to 2000. His sculptural work is characterized by the creation of a bestiary, sometimes very realistic, centered on the animal figure and its skeletons. His work explores, based on the themes of animal trophies and paleontological remains, the complex relationships that man maintains with animals in their representation. An excellent draftsman, Garel works the subjects of his sculptures in advance on paper before shaping wood, bronze, or iron with great delicacy in the textures and a play on the excess of his works presented during exhibitions of scales such as “Le Magicien d’Os” (Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris – 2016; Venice – 2017), or his retrospectives at the Center d’Art Contemporain de la Matmut in Rouen (2019) and at the Domaine de Chamarande ( 2020).

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“A chainsaw as a pencil, I play at feeding this gallery of portraits, sometimes taking the form of a mask, a skull or a fragment of a mandible, and continuing, according to desires or encounters, my slow evolution in the land of animal singularities.”

When he shapes his works, Quentin Garel works with the material with an obvious love for organic forms. Exploring their materiality while deliberately playing with our perceptions, its changes of scale, sometimes excessive or hybridized, disturb our representation of what exists. For Christine Argot and Luc Vivès, in his Osthéomorphoses “he combines the Beautiful and the False, which nevertheless seems true – a distorted, falsely specular reflection of reality! He is a naturalist artist, collector of extraordinary skulls gleaned from his mind.” In his work on the Monozygote, a phantasmagorical bird skull in a tripod, he thus crystallizes in the same work his concern, but also a certain derision, for the destiny of animals, as much as humans, in the heart of a world in full mutation.

Edition ART FOR ALL by Galerie Loft,
2017 – Ed. 2023, Painted cast metal,
H.20.5 x L. 12 x D. 10 cm, 854 grams,
Signed and numbered 300 copies.
Dimensions of the box: H. 25.3 x L. 17.8 x D. 15 cm

Monozygotes-Dans-l'atelier-de-l'artiste-QuentinGarel
Monozygote II, in progress, 2016

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Additional information

Weight 854 g
Dimensions 20 × 12 × 10 cm
Year

2017 – Ed. 2023

Material

Cast iron

Signature

Engraved signature

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Edition of 300

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