“The relationship with time is at the very heart of this sculpture,as a prevalent obsession. The connection with archaeology and with the origin of sculpture is one of the paths followed by this obsession with time. But, if it is obvious that their apparent incomplete or half-destroyed state suggests the passage of millennia, if the schematization of the figures makes us remember now-defunct civilizations, most of
Petit’s works compel us to think of time far more severely and directly”.
Philippe Dagen, 2011.
“Everything reverberates with a scream, a long uninterrupted scream of which the
bronze is no longer but an echo that has lost its mouth. If there is any gentleness, it is in the after-cry. And in the silence in which it is shared. It is a time after tears have been shed, when the world has become dry once more and the only thing left to do is to comb the earth, looking for the shapes of the people we once loved”.
Ollivier Pourriol, 2013.
Marc Petit was born in June 27th, 1961 in Saint-Céré (Lot).
It is in Cahors where he spends his childhood, that he realizes his first sculptures from the age of 14 years old. He goes alongside to two sculptors, former alumni of the Fine arts school of Paris, which correct regularly his work: René Fournier teaches him the bases of the modeling and passes on to him the education of Marcel Gimond
Jean Lorquin, first great prize of Rome brings him his vision, his knowledge but also a true reflection on sculpture.
At the age of 24, he presents his first personal exhibition in Villeneuve sur Lot.
In 1989, he is a prize-winner of the foundation of France, then in 1993 prize-winner of the foundation Charles Oulmont.
The same year is organized an exhibition of his works in the museum Jean Jaurés in Castres. Since then, his work is regularly presented in Europe, in art fairs and in galleries.
In 2005, we could see about of 150 of his works in the Lazaret Ollandini in Ajaccio.
In 2006, the city of Cahors and the General Council of the Lot dedicated him a double exhibition, in the museum of Cahors Henri Martin and in the museum Rignault in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie.
The Marc Petit museum opens its doors on October 18th, 2008 in the walls of the Lazaret Ollandini in Ajaccio.
Summer 2011, the centre of contemporary art of the abbey of Auberive presents an important review in the parks and the thirty-room art centre.
October 22nd, 2011 is inaugurated The Space Marc Petit in the gallery Artset in Limoges.
March 24th, 2012 opening of the permanent space ' The Clos of Sculpture Marc Petit ' - Gallery Clos des Cimaises in Saint-Georges-du-Bois ( 17 ).
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Conseil Régional d'Aquitaine - Bordeaux
Fontaine place du Colisée - Châteauneuf-la-Forêt
Jardin Marcelle Delpastre - Aixe / Vienne
Musée Jean Jaurès - Castres
Musée Goya - Castres
Musée Rapin - Villeneuve-sur-Lot
Maison de l'industrie - Decazeville
St'Art - Galerie Nicolet - Strasbourg, France
St'Art - Galerie Nicolet - Strasbourg, France
Galerie NacLil - Lille, France
Salle Saint-Esprit - Valbonne, France
Galerie Grand'rue - Poitiers, France
Galerie du Château - Renens, Switzerland
Le Clos des Cimaises - Saint-Georges-du-Bois, France
Galerie du Rat mort - Ostende, Belgium
Rétrospective Abbaye d'Auberive, France
Galerie Artset - Limoges, France
Musée Marc Petit - Ajaccio, France
Galerie Samantha Sellem et galerie Béatrice Soulié - Paris, France
Galerie du Saint-James - Bouliac, France
St'Art - galerie Artsud - Strasbourg, France
Galerie Artset - Limoges, France
Musée Henri Martin et Musée Rignault - Cahors et Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, France
St'Art - galerie Artsud - Strasbourg, France
La Maison-près-Bastille - Paris, France
Galerie Art Sud - Toulouse, France
Galerie Artset - Limoges, France
Les Chants de la nuit - Saint-Geours-de-Maremne, France
AB Galeria - Granollers, Spain
Galerie Canvas - Malines, Belgium
Galerie Joëlle Maulny - Angers, France
Galerie Joëlle Maulny - Angers, France
Galerie Art Sud - Art Expo Barcelone, Spain
Galerie Annick Driguez - Paris, France