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Jean-Claude Farhi was a French sculptor born February 11, 1940 in Paris and died on 7 September 2012 in Monaco [ 1 ] .
Biography
Jean-Claude Farhi was born in Paris on February 11, 1940. In 1946, he moved to Bogota ( Colombia ). In 1957, he moved to Nice , where he took courses in drawing the Decorative Arts in Nice. He did his military service , partly in Algeria from 1960 to 1962.
He returned to Nice where he met the leading artists of the School of Nice : Ben , Gilli Alocco, Malaval ... and the new-realistic Arman and Raysse , who introduced him to the critic Pierre Restany . In 1965/1966, he worked on "Motorcolors" and the sculptures in plexiglass or metal. He worked for a time with Caesar .
In 1968 (Exhibition Gallery Iris Clert), he devoted himself mainly to sculptures Plexiglas (supported factories' Polivar "), which direction will develop its work with monumental works. His last monumental metal sculpture was installed at Saint Paul de Vence , at the crossroads to the center of the village and the Maeght Foundation .
Pierre Restany wrote: "One can speak of constructivism deconstructs about these new sculptures Farhi. One can think of sculptures by phone offered by Moholy-Nagy . But in this case the telephone call would have suffered serious interference Art Deco and postmodern. " [ 2 ] . Claude Fournet, then director of the Museums of Nice, said: "At the command of the plastic which was the primary element of his research merges functionality of forms borrowed from the world of Futurism and Bauhaus . With this deviation which bases all artists today act of playful appropriation is masterfully and Jean-Claude Farhi in the line of New-Realists when playing shapes, in his highly colored material, he proposes sculptures that are many sketches, drawn in the light of pure color. "
