Raphaël Zarka
Biography
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Born in 1977 in Montpellier (France). Lives ans works in Paris (France).
Sculptor Raphaël Zarka also expresses himself through photography, drawing or video. His approach refers to science, industry, philosophy, the perpetual search for new trajectories. Through his work, he collects forms that can be minimal, geometric but remain recognizable while being isolated from their context.
Raphael Zarka was awarded the Prize of Fondation d’entreprise Ricard in 2008 and he was nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2013.
Raphaël Zarka works have been exhibited at Tate Modern (London), Centre Pompidou Metz, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo (Roma), Museo Experimental el Eco (Mexico), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Protein Studio (London), Museum of Contemporary Art - MOCAD (Detroit), Luciana Brito Galeria (São Paulo), Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (Singapore), Le Corbusier Foundation - Villa Savoye (Poissy), EACC - Espai d’art Contemporani de Castelló (Castellon), MUDAM - The Grand Duke Jean Museumof Modern Art (Luxembourg), Stroom Den Haag (La Haye), Pastificio de Cerere (Roma), CAN (Neuchâtel), The Art Foundation - TAF (Athens), Modern Art (Oxford), Zabludowicz Collection (New York), Le Grand Café (Saint-Nazaire), FRAC Franche Comté (Besançon), Les Abattoirs (Toulouse), Performa 11 (New York), New Visual Art Performance Biennial (New York).
His work is part of prestigious collections as Centre Georges-Pompidou (Paris), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, MUDAM - The Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art (Luxembourg), Kadist Art Foundation (Paris), Zabludowicz Foundation (London), Museum of Old and New Art (Hobart), Josée and Marc Gensollen collection (Marseilles) among others.
Selected press
Publications
Riding Modern Art
Publisher: B42
ISBN 978-2917855874
Raphaël Zarka
Publisher: Musée de Sérignan
ISBN 978-2-9541245-4-45 €
Raphaël Zarka
Publisher: Editions B42, Galerie Michel Rein30 €
On a day with no waves (a chronicle of skateboarding 1779-2009)
13.70 €
La conjonction interdite
Free Ride, skateboard, mécanique galiléenne et formes simples
En milieu continu
Publisher: École régionale des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
CITY Magazine International
Publisher: City Magazine
