Famous for his allegorical sculptures in ceramic and bronze, Johan Creten has continued since the 90s to depict a world full of poetry, lyricism and mysteries.
Johan Creten’s imagination feeds on themes, motifs and objects that take on a symbolic meaning.
La Grande Colonne is a work that first appeared in marble powder and resin in 2010 and was installed for ten years at the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp, Belgium. Today, this majestic five-metre-high sculpture can be seen for the first time in bronze, next to the follies and the composed landscape of the Garenne Lemot park.
Mixing the forms of a tree, a flower, a person and an octopus’s tentacles, this sculpture oscillates between abstract and figurative art and draws on many references from architecture and nature.
Johan Creten was born in 1963 and lives and now works in Montreuil, France. He is represented by Galerie Perrotin (Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo), Galerie Almine Rech (Paris, Brussels, London, New York) and Galerie Transit (Mechelen).
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From july 1st 2023 to june 28th 2026
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