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This book explores the deeply human and sensitive nature of hyperrealist sculpture, a movement that emerged in the United States in the 1960s and, and following several decades of an art scene dominated by abstraction, it marked – together with Pop Art – a radical new return to figuration. Since the end of the 20th century, this art form has also experienced an unexpected revival of interest in the Western world. This catalogue has been compiled for the important Spring-Summer 2023 exhibition at the Musée d’arts de Nantes, which is the only public collection in France to include a sculpture by the pioneer of hyperrealism, American artist Duane Hanson. It allows the reader to discover how this meticulously realistic figurative art was able to develop a new approach to the challenges of sculpture and portraiture that went beyond social and political dimensions and put the individual back at the heart of the process of artistic creation.

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For its major exhibition 2023, the Musée d'arts de Nantes looks at hyperrealistic sculpture. Since the 1990s there has been a renewed interest in this art form which has rarely been exhibited in France since its birth in the United States during the 1960s.
Through over thirty works by eleven international sculptors, some of which have never been exhibited before, the Musée d'arts explores the profoundly human and sensitive characteristics of these meticulously realistic sculptures, and the striking illusions they create. A sensory experience and not-to-be-missed event!

The artists exhibited
Gilles Barbier, Berlinde De Bruyckere, John DeAndrea, Daniel Firman, Duane Hanson, Sam Jinks, Tony Matelli, Saana Murtti, Evan Penny, Marc Sijan and Tip Toland

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Ce volume explore le caractère profondément humain et sensible de la sculpture hyperréaliste, un mouvement né aux États-Unis dans les années 1960 qui, après plusieurs décennies d'une scène artistique dominée par l'abstraction, réaffirme, à l'instar du Pop Art, un retour tout aussi radical que nouveau à la figuration. Depuis la fin du 20e siècle, cet art connaît également un regain d'intérêt inattendu dans le monde occidental. Ce catalogue, issu de la grande exposition printemps-été 2023 au Musée d'arts de Nantes - seule collection publique française à conserver une sculpture du pionnier de l'hyperréalisme, l'Américain Duane Hanson - propose de découvrir comment cet art figuratif, méticuleusement réaliste, parvient à rejouer les enjeux de la sculpture et du portrait, au-delà des dimensions sociales et politiques, pour placer l'individu au centre de la démarche artistique.

Les artistes exposés: Gilles Barbier, Berlinde De Bruyckere, John DeAndrea, Daniel Firman, Duane Hanson, Sam Jink, Tony Matelli, Saana Murtti, Evan Penny, Marc Sijan, Tip Toland