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15/5/2007

Alain Kirili

Musee National de l'Orangerie, Paris

Kirili et les Nymphéas

Marked by American art, and in particular by sculptor David Smith, Alain Kirili, born in 1946 in Paris, started his large series Commandements in 1980. They have rhythmed his production of sculptures for nearly a quarter of a century. These are monumental installations made of individual pieces, stylish geometric forms the artist assimilates to signs, letters from a plastic alphabet, inspired by Chinese calligraphy, by minimalist art or characters traced by the scribes of the Torah. He was used to confrontations with the works of past artists (facing Rodin in 1985 or facing Carpeaux at the museum of Valenciennes in 2002), he measures himself today to Monet's Nymphéas, one of his greatest models.

His Commandement, à Claude Monet uses concrete for the first time, colored in the block to give a « game of two or three irregular colors with effects of clouds or reflections». Other interventions punctuate the rooms of the Orangerie and visitors will also be able to stroll in the garden of the Tuileries: the sculptures of creators of the XXth century that have been set up there for some years were chosen by Kirili upon the request of the ministry of Culture.

Musee de l’Orangerie
Jardin des Tuileries 01 - Paris

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