De Vleermuis - Study two on a yellow ground | Johan CRETEN (2016 - 2018) | PERROTIN

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Johan
CRETEN

De Vleermuis - Study two on a yellow ground, 2016 - 2018

Glazed stoneware on wooden base

Dimensions globales | Overall dimensions : 171 x 105 x 100 cm | 67 5/16 x 41 5/16 x 39 3/8 inch
Sculpture | Sculpture : 45 x 112 x 54 cm | 17 11/16 x 44 1/8 x 21 1/4 inch
Base jaune | Yellow base : 6 x 114 x 48 cm | 2 3/8 x 44 7/8 x 18 7/8 inch
Socle en bois | Wood pedestal : 120 x 105 x 100 cm | 47 1/4 x 41 5/16 x 39 3/8 inch

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photograph : CLAIRE DORN

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“Vleermuis is the Dutch word for bat.

Vleermuis: the labial opening and the vowel ending of this impenetrable word evoke in me both Vermeer and the huis of huis-clos.

“Chauve-souris” – the French word for bat, an almost Mallarméan word, a surrealist word, similar to an exquisite corpse – perfectly expresses the singularity of Johan Creten’s work.

The mutilated animals of Germaine Richier (b. 1946) and César (b. 1954) come to mind of course but also, and even more so, Odilon Redon’s phantasmagoria and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc’s rêveries. So do familiar nightmares, the unsettling uncanny. Because Johan Creten suggests it swiftly: is there a more ambiguous, more threatening beast, threatening because ambiguous, than this bat that never leaves, never exiles itself, never migrates, this beast that, by standing beside us, more precisely among us, under our roofs and streetlights, almost resembles our urges that have taken flight?” – Colin Lemoine


- 2024 : "Jouer avec le feu", Musée Des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, Orléans, France
- 2018 : "Naked Roots/ Naakte Wortels”, Musée Beelden aan Zee, La Haye, Pays-Bas


- Musée des Beaux-Arts Orléan, Johan Creten, cat. expo., Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts (23 mars 2024 - 31 aout 2025), Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, 2024, p. 265-269

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Johan_Creten_De Vleermuis - Study two on a yellow ground_
Johan_Creten_De Vleermuis - Study two on a yellow ground_
Johan_Creten_De Vleermuis - Study two on a yellow ground_
Johan_Creten_De Vleermuis - Study two on a yellow ground_
Johan_Creten_De Vleermuis - Study two on a yellow ground_
Vue de l'exposition “Naked Roots”, Musée Beelden aan Zee, La Haye (Pays-Bas), 2018
Vue de l'exposition “Naked Roots”, Musée Beelden aan Zee, La Haye (Pays-Bas), 2018
Vue de l'installation permanente (version fontaine) devant l'église Broerekerk à Bolsward (Pays-Bas)
Vue de l'installation permanente (version fontaine) devant l'église Broerekerk à Bolsward (Pays-Bas)
  • Johan_Creten_De Vleermuis - Study two on a yellow ground_
  • Johan_Creten_De Vleermuis - Study two on a yellow ground_
  • Johan_Creten_De Vleermuis - Study two on a yellow ground_
  • Johan_Creten_De Vleermuis - Study two on a yellow ground_
  • Johan_Creten_De Vleermuis - Study two on a yellow ground_
  • Johan_Creten_De Vleermuis - Study two on a yellow ground_
  • Johan_Creten_De Vleermuis - Study two on a yellow ground_
  • Vue de l'exposition “Naked Roots”, Musée Beelden aan Zee, La Haye (Pays-Bas), 2018
  • Vue de l'installation permanente (version fontaine) devant l'église Broerekerk à Bolsward (Pays-Bas)

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