{"id":74020,"date":"2023-05-23T10:42:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T08:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.levoyageanantes.fr\/oeuvres\/la-mouche-morte\/"},"modified":"2023-07-05T13:21:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T11:21:20","slug":"the-dead-fly","status":"publish","type":"oeuvre","link":"https:\/\/www.levoyageanantes.fr\/en\/artworks\/the-dead-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"La Mouche morte"},"content":{"rendered":"

Johan Creten has been a fervent defender of ceramics and bronze in contemporary art, and remains a major pioneer in this domain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Mixing popular imagery, sensuality, and beauty, his allegorical sculptures \u2013 hybrids of figuration and abstraction \u2013 depict a world filled with poetry, lyricism and mystery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between 2019 and 2022, Creten created 17 monumental ceramic animals for his \u201cBestiarium\u201d series that, like a sort of Noah\u2019s Ark, brings together a sheep, dog, seahorse, snail, rabbit, fly, spider, grasshopper, beaver, pelican, wild boar, hedgehog… all entirely modelled in enamelled ceramic with dripping glazes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Le Voyage \u00e0 Nantes, the artist enlarged one of the original works in this series: La Mouche morte<\/em> (\u201cThe Dead Fly\u201d), which was recently acquired as part of the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne de Paris\u2019 permanent collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<\/div><\/section>\n\t

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).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\t

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By the same artist<\/h2><\/div>
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La Grande Colonne<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div>
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Jardin des plantes<\/h2>See<\/a>