Johan CRETEN

Name: Strange Fruit
Start: 2008-03-08
End: 2008-04-05
Location: Miami

Strange Fruit

solo show

March 8, 2008 - April 5, 2008

miami

artist info

View of the exhibition "Strange Fruit" in 2008 at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami « Creten lives like a nomad and goes where he can work or prepare an exhibition. In recent years he has spent time in Arizona desert, in a 17th century hacienda in Mexico, in the Villa Médicis in Rome, and at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami as artist in residence. From Miami he went to Paris, where he was also able to work as artist in residence at the legendary porcelain factory Manufacture nationale de Sèvres. Creten says that he is not that interested in ceramics as a technique, but he is interested in extending the technical possibilities that benefit his work. So in cooperation with the staff at the Sèvres facory he has made huge sculptures, which was no easy task from the technical point of view. » Doris Wintgens Hötte, « Johan Creten. Ars longa, vita brevis », Johan Creten: beelden, cat. exp., Leiden, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, 2007, page 55.