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Tuesday, 4 October 2016 to Monday, 31 October 2016
Henri Barande at Saatchi Gallery

October 2016 will be the first time to see the remarkable work of French-born artist Henri Barande in the UK. Both intriguing and stimulating, Henri Barande’s artistic practice is as unique as it is compelling.

“He is the “absent one” who wishes simply to disappear behind his work and thereby procure his own annihilation.” Henry-Claude Cousseau, Director, École des Beaux Arts

Barande’s creativity first emerged when he was a child living in Tunisia, where he played among the ruins of the ancient Phoenician capital of Carthage. His practice is dedicated to exploring the dialogue between life and death, the found and the fabricated, which led to the creation of a world of miniature forms and figures. These small sculptures have since been buried at an undisclosed location or destroyed by his own hand, carefully and purposefully concealed from view. From this seeming act of destruction has arisen a stunning array of monumental paintings, many of which employ motifs from the ‘lost’ sculptures. Distant and yet intensely absorbing, the luminous canvases initiate a provocative dialogue between the abstract and the figurative. The Henri Barande exhibition will consist of an installation of forty-five canvases and twenty-five sculptures.

Despite the fact that he is prolific, Barande initially sought anonymity. For fifty years he kept his work private, so that his achievements remain largely unknown to the art establishment. His works are unsigned, undated and untitled, and they are not for sale. This freedom from commercial considerations has allowed him to pursue his artistic goals without compromise, to disappear behind his work. Barande’s original decision never to exhibit his work, even to destroy it, has allowed the artist an extraordinary degree of creative freedom. Some twenty years ago the American curator and critic David Galloway persuaded Barande to share his vision with others – first through publications, then through exhibitions. Barande will only show his work once in any single country, and the exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery will be the only chance to see his work in the UK in his lifetime. Henri Barande: The Work Beyond has been published by Booth-Clibborn Editions to coincide with the exhibition. Edited by David Galloway and containing texts by Henri-Claude Cousseau, Romaric Sulger Büel, and Michel Weemans, the 304 page book contains 179 full-colour plates. Eminent American art critic David Galloway has also curated the exhibition, which is presented by the Violet Hour.

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About Henri Barande
Henri Barande was born in Morocco and grew up in Carthage, an area whose geography, architecture and atmosphere had a profound effect on his practice as an artist. Barande believes his life is a prolongation of a death that has already occurred, and that his work is the surviving version of a previous existence. His sculptures and paintings represent a continuous dialogue with those beliefs. Henri Barande’s solo shows to date are Meteoron at Sotheby’s Zurich (2000), the Musée d’Art Moderne, Geneva (2008), and Nice to be Dead at the École des Beaux Arts, Paris (2011). In addition, he has participated in group shows at the Zurich Kunsthalle (2002) and the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo (2009).

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About David Galloway
David Galloway is a curator, author and art critic. Professor Emeritus of the Ruhr University (Germany), he served as Chief Curator of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in 1977-78. Since then, he has worked regularly as a consultant and guest curator, creating exhibitions for the Siemens Corporation (Munich), the Ludwig Forum (Aachen), the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the Cologne Fine Art & Antiques Fair. His most recent books include Hermann-Josef Kuhna: The Handel Cycle and monographs on the works of Frank Bauer and Harding Mayer.

About the Violet Hour
Established in February 2013, The Violet Hour is a collaborative enterprise that supports, exhibits, promotes and publicises the work of artists. www.violethour.org

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About the Saatchi Gallery
The Saatchi Gallery was founded to provide an innovative platform to make contemporary art accessible by bringing it to as wide an audience as possible. Over the last five years the Saatchi Gallery has hosted seventeen of the top twenty most visited exhibitions in London, according to The Art Newspaper’s annual survey of international museum attendance, and is also ranked amongst the world’s top five museum favourites on Facebook and Twitter by Museum Analytics. Entry to all the Saatchi Gallery’s exhibitions is free. http://www.saatchigallery.com

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