MARC PETIT

Marc Petit was born in 1961 in Saint-Céré in the Lot department, and spent his childhood in Cahors, where he made his first sculptures at the age of 14. René Fournier and Jean Lorquin, former students at the Beaux-arts in Paris and award-winning sculptors, regularly corrected his work over the next ten years. At just 24, the artist presented his 1st solo exhibition in Villeneuve sur Lot, and went on to become a laureate of the Charles Oulmont Foundation, while continuing his exploits. His achievements, increasingly exhibited in Europe, led to the opening of his own museum in 2006, within the walls of Lazaret Ollandini in Ajaccio. In 2015, he was voted best sculptor in the world by Miroir de l’Art magazine. His works are on permanent display at La Galerie.

Philippe Dagen says: “…the relationship with time is at the heart of these sculptures, like a dominant obsession. The relationship with archaeology and the origin of sculpture is one of the modes of this obsession with time. But while their apparent state of incompletion or semi-destruction certainly suggests the passage of millennia, and the schematisation of the figures brings to mind vanished civilisations, most of Petit’s works force us to think about time in an even more severe and direct way.”