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Biography
| Born: | Anne, Marseille, France, 1942 Patrick, Nantes, France, 1942 |
| Live and work in Paris, France | |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2011 | “The Garden of Memory. Project for a Contemporary Necropolis,” Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina Napoli, Italy; April 2 – May 23 |
| 2010 | Château de Chaumont, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France |
| 2009 | Maison René Char, l’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France Chapelle Saint-Charles, Avignon, France |
| 2008 | JGM. Galerie, Paris, France |
| 2006 | La fabrica della memoria, La Limonaia di Ponente di Villa La Màgia, Italy Villa Medicea La Magia, Quarrata, Italy |
| 2005 | Centre d’art contemporain André Malraux, Colmar, France |
| 2004 | Centre d’art contemporain La Passerelle, Brest, France “La Verrière” Bruxelles, Belgium |
| 2003 | Exhibition, Kunstmuseum, Thun, Switzerland |
| 2001 | C.R.E.D.A.C, Ivry-sur-Seine, France |
| 1999 | Fragilité, Musée de l’Élysée Lausanne, Switzerland Photographs, Chac Mool Gallery Los Angeles, CA The Shadow of Gradiva, Getty Research Institute Los Angeles, CA |
| 1997 | Le Parvis, Centre d’art contemporain, Ibos, France |
| 1996 | “Ouranopolis,” Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France “Quartos Duplos” Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal |
| 1995 | “Ouranopolis”, Sonnabend Gallery, NY |
| 1994 | Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Le Capitou, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Frejus “Ex-voto”, Eglise Saint-Nicolas, Caen, France |
| 1993 | Studio G7/Ginevra Grigolo, Bologna Galerie Dany Keller, Munich Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels Obalne Galerije, Piran, Slovenia “Tinglado 2”, Tarragona, Spain |
| 1992 | Studio G7/Ginevra Grigolo, Bologna Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Galleria Massimo Valsecchi, Milan Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM |
| 1991 | Galerie de Francony-Yaoama, Tokyo Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, Canada “Mnemosyne”, Sonnabend Gallery, NY “Les Archives de L’Archeologue”, Galleria Studio G7/Ginevra Grigolo, Bologna, Italy Galleriea Zelig, Bari, Italy Galleria Massimo Valsecchi, Milan |
| 1990 | “Lambeaux de Memoire et d’Oubli”, Galerie Reckermann, Cologne “Depot de Memoire et d’Oubli”, Place de la Bastille, Paris Galleria Valentina Moncada, Rome Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg Galerie Ingrid Dacic, Tubingen, Germany |
| 1989 | “De la Fragilite du Pouvoir”, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France “Wandering into Memory”, Storm King Art Center, Moun¬tain, New York |
| 1988 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York Kunstforum Stadtische Galerie, Im Lenbachhaus, Munich Studio G7/Ginevra Grigolo, Bologna, Italy Galleria Meta, Bolzano, Italy Dany Keller, Munich |
| 1987 | Villa Merkel, Galerie der Stadt Esslingeng, Esslingeng, West Germany Area Gallery, Barcelona, Spain Ingrid Dacic Gallery, Tubingen, Germany |
| 1986 | Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C. “Promenade Classique”, public artwork, Transpotomac Canal Center, Alexandria, VA Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris |
| 1985 | Studio G7/ Ginevra Grigolo, Bologna, Italy Arco d’Alibert, Roma New Port Museum of Art, Los Angeles Maison de la Culture, Grenoble, France Musee de Montelimar, France |
| 1984 | Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris Sonnabend Gallery, New York “Thunderstruck Landscape”, an Installation by Anne and Patrick Poirier, The Brooklyn Museum, Grand Lobby, New York, November 18 Galerie d’Art Hotel de Ville de Villeurbanne, (November 12-December 1, 1984) |
| 1983 | “Anne et Patrick Poirier Le temple aux cent colonnes”, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Cite du Havre, Montreal Festival d’Automme, Chapelle Saint Louis de la Salpetriere, Paris “Architettura e Mitologia”, Chiesa di San Carpoforo, Milan |
| 1982 | “Statements”, Sonnabend Gallery, New York Studio G7 Ginevra Grigolo, Bologne, Italy Gallery Massimo Valsecchi, Milan |
| 1981 | “Falaises de Marbre Fragments d’une Utopia”, Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris, France Maison de la Culture, Chalon sur Saone, France Villa Romana, Florence, Italy “Frammenti di marmi e di parole”, Arco d’Alibert Gallery, Rome, Italy Galerie de Ponchettes, Nice, France Breda Museum, Holland |
| 1980 | Gallery Massimo Valsechhi, Milan Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Sonnabend Gallery, New York Studio G7 Ginevra Grigolo, Bologne, Italy P.S. 1, New York |
| 1979 | Galerie Sonnabend, Paris Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy Gallery Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany |
| 1978 | Galerie Sonnabend, Paris Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany Decor pour le Dom Juan De Moliere, Dusseldorf Palais voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels, Belgium Mannheimer Kunstverein, mannheim, Germany “Projects”, Museum of Modern Art, New York Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 1977 | Galerie Sonnabend, Paris Gallery Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany Gallery Massimo Valsecchi, Milan, Italy CAPC, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France Maison de la Culture, Rennes, France Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin |
| 1975 | Galerie Sonnabend, New York Danner’t Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark Gallery Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany |
| 1974 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York Galerie Sonnabend, Geneva, Switzerland Galleria Forma, Genova, Italy Galerie Yellow Now, Liege |
| 1973 | Gallery Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany Neue Galerie (Collection Ludwig), Aachen, Germany Kunstverein, Rottweill, Germany Galerie Sonnabend, Paris |
| 1972 | Gallery Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany |
| 1970 | “Arco d’Alibert”, Rome, Italy |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2000 | “Inner Eye: Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection”, Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY |
| 1999 | Fragilité, Musée de l’Élysée Lausanne, Switzerland Memoria Mundi, Foundation Mont Blanc New York, NY Mémoire avant dispersion, Les Champs de la Sculpture Paris, France |
| 1998 | Dérives Botaniques, Brussels, Belgium Ensemble Moderne, Galerie Ropac Salzburg, Paris Irresistible Decay, Getty Research Institute Los Angeles, CA L’Ombra degli Dei, Bagheria, Italy Hambourg War Game – Snooker, Pièce Unique Paris, France Les larmes de l’oubli, Centre d’Art Contemporain |
| 1997 | Biennale du Montenegro, Montenegro, Spain Made in France, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, France |
| 1994 | “Irresistable Decay: Ruins in Modernity,” J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1993 | “The Frozen Leopard”, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich “Force Sight II”, Schloff Presteneck, Stuttgart Musee des Beaux-Arts, Belmonte Arboretum, Holland |
| 1992 | “The Frozen Leopard”, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany “Force Sight I”, Schloff Presteneck, Stuttgart |
| 1991 | “El Sueno de Egito (La Influencia del Arte Egipcio en el Arte Contemporaneo)”, Centro Cultural, Arte Contemporaneo, A.C., Mexico City, Mexico “Masterworks of Contemporary Sculpture, Painting and Drawing: The 1930’s to the 1990’s”, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM “Masterworks of Contemporary Sculpture, Painting and Sculpture”, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM “Jerry Kearns: Body and Soul”, Meyers Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA “Consorts”, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA “Sculpture from the Straus Collection”, Steinman College Center, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA “History as Fiction”, Meyers-Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA “So stel ich mir die Liebe vor”, Dany Keller Gallery, Munich |
| 1990 | “Team Spirit”, Neuberger Museum, SUNY at Purchase, Purchase, NY; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; The Art Museum of Florida |
| 1989 | “Encore: Celebrating Fifty Years”, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH “Pyramiden”, Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frenchen Bachen, West Germany “Weiner Diwan: Sigmund Freud Heute”, Museum des 20, Jahrhunderts, Vienna |
| 1988 | “Collection Sonnabend”, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Capc, Musee d’art Contemporain, Bordeaux; Art Cologne, Cologne; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome; Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trent; Musee Rath, Geneva; Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo; The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan; The Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan; The National Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto “Classical Myth and Imagery in Contemporary Art”, The Queens Museum, New York “Visions/Revisions”/ Marlborourgh Gallery Inc., New York, (exhibition catalogue) |
| 1987 | “Sacred Spaces”, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY “Romanticism & Classicism”, Queensborough Community College, C.U.N.Y., Bayside, NY “Avant Garde in th Eighties”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA “Zauber Der Medusa”, Kunstlerhaus,Vienna,Austria “Selections from X)1”, Organized by Saul Ostrow, Damon Brandt Gallery “Nature Redifined, A Cultural Perspective”, Piezo Electric, New York |
| 1986 | “Art from Two Continents”, Bruce Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida “Olympus Revisited”, Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ Artsite Gallery, Exterior Sites, Bath, England |
| 1985 | “The Classic Tradition” In Recnt Painting and Sculpture”, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut (May – September 1) “Sculpture: The Language of Scale”, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut (September 15 – December 1) “Artists + Architects Challenges in Collaboration”, curator Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art (October 4 – November 16) |
| 1984 | “Individualites”, Turin, Galerie Nationale d’Art Moderne, Rome, Italy Museo di Viterbo, Viterbo, Italy “Biennale of Venice”, Venice, Italy “Collaboration”, Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington “Voices Contemporary Art and Artists”, at The Brooklyn Museum, New York |
| 1983 | “Connections”, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia “Biennale de Sculpture de Middelheim”, Anvers “Adamah, la terre”, ELAC, Lyon, France |
| 1982 | “Twelve Contemporary French Artists”, Albright Knox Art Gallery “Stadt und Utopie”, Kunsthalle, Berlin “Vergangenheit, Gegenwart, Zukunft”, Stuttgart “In chartis”, Museo Archeologico Pistoia, Fattoria di Celle, Spoleto, Italy “Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Gent”, Palais dea Beaux Arts, Brussels |
| 1981 | “Working Drawings”, Hunter College Gallery, Hunter College, New York (travelling show) “Schemes”, Elise Meyer Gallery, New York (travelling Show) “Imaginary Civilizations”, Tyler Galleries of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA Fran Franckricre, Stockholm “Autoportraits Photographiques”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France “New Concepts for a New Art”, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama “Mithos und Rituals”, Kunsthaus, Zurich; Kunstverein, Hamburg |
| 1980 | “Architectural Sculpture”, curated by Debra Burchett, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (September 30 November 21) “Architectural References”, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada “Architectural References in the Seventies”, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA “Yesterday & After”, Musee des Beaux Arts de Montreal, Canada International Sculpture Conference, Washington “Visual Diaries”, Alex Rosenberg Gallery, New York “Esperienza a Bordeaux”, XXXIX Venice Biennale, Italy “Tendances de l’art en France 1969 79, parti pris autres”, ARC, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris “Years 70th”, Gand Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY “Cartes et Figures de la Terre”, C.C.I., Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris |
| 1979 | “Europe in the 70’s: Aspects of Recent Art”, The Contemporary Arts Center, Ohio (December 1 January 31, 1979) “Imaginary Worlds”, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York “An European Dialogue”, Sydney “French Art, an English Selection”, Galerie Serpentine, London |
| 1978 | “The Fantasy Show”, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkhill, N.Y. “Kunstlehren”, Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany “Couples Show”, P.S.1 Institute for Arts & Urban Resources, Lon Island City, New York “Europe in the 70’s: Aspects of Recent Art”, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithsonian Insitute, Washington D.C. (march 16/May 7, 1978); The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California (June 23 August 6, 1978) The Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas (September 24 October 29 , 1978) |
| 1977 | Documents, Kassel, Germany “Europe in the 70’s: Aspects of Recent Art”, Art Insitute of Chicago, Illinois “Visual Daries a personal use of words and images”, Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida “Time”, Pennsylvania College of Art, Philadephia, PA |
| 1976 | “Biennale Venice”, Venice, Italy “Group Photography Show”, The Jerusalem Museum, Jerusalem, Israel “Art et Photographic”, Maison de la Culture, Rennes, France “06 Art 76”, University Art Museum, Berkley, California Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas; Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York “Photographic Process as Medium”, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ “Narrative in Contemporary Art”, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada “Illusions of Reality”, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia “Identite, Identification”, CAPC, Bordeaux, France |
| 1975 | “Pour Memoire”, Musee des Beaux Arts, Charleroi, France Musee d’Arles, Arles, France “34th Exhibition”, Society for Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago |
| 1974 | Kunstmarkt, Cologne, Germany “Spurensicherung”, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany “Spurensicherung”, Kunstverein, Munich, Germany “Die Verloren Identitat”, Stadtisches Museum, Leverkusen, Germany “Project 74”, Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany “Tempo e Ricognizione”, Gallery La Bertesca, Milan, Italy Studio Marconi Gallery, Milan, Italy “10 Artistes Contemporains”, Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany |
| 1973 | “Biennale des Jeunes”, Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, France “Octobre a Bordeaux”, Musee des Beaux Arts, Bordeaux |
| 1971 | Grands et Jeunes d’Aujourd’hui, Paris, France |
| 1970 | Universal Exposition, Osaka French Pavillion |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
| 1994 | Nesweda, Peter. “Anne and Patrick Poirier: Museum Moderner Kunst.” Artforum, Sept. Vol. XXXIII, No. 1, p. 115 |
| 1993 | Cox, M. “Jardins des Artistes.” Abrams, NY Sans, J. “Naufragis, Tinglado 2, Tarragona Clot, M. “Naufragis, Tinglado 2, Tarragona |
| 1992 | Protzman, Ferdinand. “Peter the Great.” Artnews, Feb. pp. 74-79 Deggiovanni, Piero. “Anne e Patrick Poirier: Edizioni d’arte Renografica, Tema Celeste, Jan./Mar. p. 101 Bell, David. “Art Market.” Albuquerque Journal, July 2, p. 4 |
| 1991 | Turner, Jonathan. “Giuliano Gori: Skeletons, Stairways and Thunderbolts”, Artnews, January, pp. 75-78 Dalesio, Gabriella. “Anne and Patrick Poirier,” Contemporanea, Jan. pg. 108 Broude, Norma. “Report from Washington II: Alternative Monuments,” Art in America, Feb. pgs. 73-81 “Team Spirit: Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art,” Dialogue, Arts in the Midwest, Jan./Feb. pg. 34 Levin, Kim. “Collective Conscious: Contemporary Sculpture Collaborations,” Sculpture Magazine, March/April, pp. 32-39 Perret, Catherine and Bonfand, Alain. “Anne & Patrick Poirier.” Galeries Magaizne, Apr./May, pp. 83-87, 141 Duncan, Ann. “Imitation ruins from an imaginary past.” The Gazette, Sat. May 4 Dumont, Jean. “Dans l’epaisseur de la memoire.” Le Devoir, Sat. June 1, p. C8 Castle, Frederick, Ted. “Anne & Patrick Poirier.” Arts Magazine, Sept. p. 69 Heartney, Eleanor. “Anne and Patrick Poirier at Sonnabend Gallery.” ArtNews, pp. 124 + 125 Cameron, Dan. “History as Fiction.” Artspace, Fall, pp. 51-53 Kandel, Susan. “‘History as Fiction.” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 29, p. F12 Schwendenwien, Jude. “Anne and Patrick Poirier, Sonnabend Gallery, New York.” Sculpture, Nov./Dec. pp. 56-57 |
| 1990 | Bann, Stephen. “Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths: On Classic Ground at the Tate”, Artnews, December, pp. 75-79 |
| 1989 | Berko, Susan. “Anne and Patrick Poirier: Daniel Templon, Paris”‘ Flash Art, Mar./Apr., pg.123 Kuspit, Donald. “Anne and Patrick Poirier at Sonnabend,” Art in America, Mar. pgs.152 + 153 Abramo, Patricia Cambell. “Indoor, outdoor, sculptures abound at Storm King,” Focus, May 31, pg. Fl Santos, William. “‘Wit’s End’ finds a new home at Art Center.” Southeast Orange News, June 1, pg. 12 Nieves, Evelyn. “Sun days are for art lovers,” Go, The Times Herald Record/June 2 “At Storm King, Sculpture Amid Green Galleries.” The New York Times, June 18, Sec. 1 pg. 38 Pucci, Bob. “Towering monoliths on acres of manicured lawn.” Hudson Valley Life, Sunday, June 18, pg. 1C Macleod, Pamela, J. .’Sculpture: on the Lawn of the Mountain King,” The Wall Street Journal, June 6, pg.A26 Wallach, Amei. “Sculpted Summer.” New York Newsday, Friday, July 21 Peake, Lauren. “Artistic Playground.” Orange, July/August, pgs.14-25 Calnek, Anthony. “A Scientist Collects,” (Collection of Marc Straus), Contemporanea, July/August, pp. 48-53 Kimmelman, Michael. “Poiriers and Vuillard, in Upstate New York and Westchester.” The New York Times, Friday, August 4, pg. C23 Lempka, Wayne. “Sculptors’ Storm King show is stunning.” Poughkeepsie Journal, Sunday, August 6, pg. 3F Zimmer, William. “Architecture and Mythology Combine at Storm King Center.” The New York Times, August 27, pg. 22 Larson, Kay. “Loose Marbles,” New York Magazine, August 28, pg.64 Gibson, Eric. “Anne and Patrick Poirier at Storm King Art Center, Mountainville,” Sculpture, Oct. Berman, Eleanor. “Storm King sets man’s creations in nature’s gallery.” New York Post, Tuesday, Oct. 10, pgs. 13 + 34 Phillips, Patricia, C. “Anne and Patrick Poirier, Storm King Art Center,” Artforum, Nov. pg. 155 |
| 1988 | Raven, Arlene. “Queens,” The Village Voice, May 10, pg.100 |
| 1987 | Criton, Sonia. “Review at Daniel Templon,” Flash Art, Feb./Mar., pg.128 Sergeant, Georgia. “Promenade Classique,” International Sculpture , Jan./Feb. pgs.22 25 (repros.) Freed, Stacey. “Review: TransPotomac Canal Center,” Jan./Feb. pg.23 Selz, Peter. “Alternative Aesthectics: Quests for Spiritual Quintessence,” Arts Magazine, Oct. pgs 46 49 |
| 1986 | Watkins, Eileen, “Greek myths retain hold on comtemporary” The Sunday Star Ledger, June 1, 1986, N.J. Lemos, Peter, “Love and Sculpture Among the Ruins”, Review, Elle, December 1986. Ggib el, Victoria. “Artist + Architect + Corporation”, Art & Auction, November 1986, PP. 190 195. Forgey, Benjamin. “The Winning Waterfront”, The Washington Post, Saturday, October 18, 1986. |
| 1985 | Eleanor Heartney, ArtNews, (Review) Anne and Patrick Poirier at Sonnabend and Brooklyn Museum, January Kathie Beals, Gannet Westchester Newspapers, (Life-styles), Wednesday, June 12 Philip Eliasoph, Southern Connecticut Newspapers, Inc., Contemporary classics, Sunday, June 23 |
| 1984 | Borel, F. Arte Factum, Anne et Patrick Poirier La Genese du temps, no. 3, April May, pp.44 – 47 Michael Brenson, The New York Times, Friday, October 5 Kim Levin, Voice, October 9 |
| 1983-84 | Parachute, December-January-February 83-84 |
| 1983 | A. B. Oliva, Art Press, Paris, January G.Metken, Beaux Arts Magazine, October D.Renard, Canal, October D.Roche, Art Press, Paris, September |
| 1982 | P. Bloch, L. Pesenti, Artistes, September G. Durozoi, Canal, January X Girard, Art Press, Paris, February M.Huth, Connaissance des Arts, January Ida Panicelli, Artforum, New York E. Vedrenne, Decoration Internationale, September |
| 1981 | C. Millet, Art Press, Paris, February Victoria Donohoe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Imaginary Civilizations is Rife with Imagination, Sunday, November 15 M. Bouisset, Le Matin, Paris December 28 J.M. Tasset, Le Figaro, Paris, December 16 |
| 1980 | Hilton Kramer, The New York Times, “Today’s Avant Garde Artists Have Lost the Power to Shock”, Sunday, November 16 Kenneth Baker, Artforum, Anne and Patrick Poirier at The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, September, pp. 75 76 Douglas Balu, Arts Magazine, Anne and Patrick Poirier, vol. 55, no. 4, December, p. 12 B.R. Kologe, Art New England, June G. Lascault, Cornets d’artistes, Galerie Le Dessin, Paris A and P. Poirier, Artforum, February Barbara Cavaliere, Arts Magazine, (Review) Anne and Patrick Poirier at Sonnabend, vol. 55, no.4, December, p. 55 |
| 1979 | C.Pezzoni, Gran Bazar, Italy, September-October |
| 1978 | M. Bouisset, Encyclopedia Universalis P.Cabanne, Le Matin, Paris, January 23 B.Catoir, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Germany, April 28 B.Catoir, Kunstwerk, Germany, June G.Cortenova, La Creazione volgeva alla fine, Genova, Italy J.L. Henning, Liberation, January 13 F.Huser, Le Nouvel Observateur, January 23-29 G.Lascault, La Quinzaine Litteraire, February 1-15 G.Lascault, B. Piens, Les Musees Personnels, Paris G.Metken, Spurensicherung, Cologne, Germany G.Metken, Kunstmagazin, no. 3, Germany J.Michel, Le Monde, Paris, January 18 A.Pohlen, Flash Art, Milan, Italy H.Reuther, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Germany, June 27 K.Ruhrberg, Kunstmagazin, no. 3, Germany A.Tronche, Opus International, no. 65 B.Urdgang, Art in America, New York, May June |
| 1977 | G. Brerette, Le Monde, Paris, March 24 L.Carluccio, Panorama, Italy, February 22 J.Clarence Lambert, Preface a A. et P. Poirier, Domus Aurea, Archeologie fiction, Paris Bruxelles G.Durozoi, Canal, no. 5 0.Hahnn, L’Express, January 17 |
| 1975 | Renato Barilli, La Ripetizione differente, Milan |
| 1974 | D. Helms, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Germany, May 3 Effie Stefano, Art and Artists, London, September Robert Pincus Witten, Artforum, New York, April Sylvia Dupuis, Art Press, Paris Gerrit Henry, Art News, March |
| 1973 | J. Darriulat, Combat, October 18 J.Darriulat, Combat, November 26 H.Demoriane, Le Point, October 22 Gilbert Lascault, Vingtieme Siecle, Paris, XL Werner Lippert, Extra, Cologne, Germany |
| 1972 | J. Clair, Art en France, une nouvelle generation, Paris J.Clair, Art Vivant, no. 32, Paris G.Metken, Frankfurter Allgemeine, August 10, Germany |
BOOKS, CATALOGUES AND PERSONAL PUBLICATIONS
| 1997 | “Fagility,” Sonnabend Gallery, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Massimo Martino Fina Arts & Projects, published in Italy by Skira |
| 1994 | “Anne and Patrick Poirier”, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Electa |
| 1993 | “Mnemosyne”, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brusselles |
| 1992 | “Mnemosyne”, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris |
| 1991 | “Art Since Mid-Century: 1945 to the Present”, by Daniel Wheeler, The Vendome Press, New York “Anima mundi”, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal |
| 1985 | “The Classic Tradition – In Recent Painting and Sculpture”, Essay by Robert Metzger (Director), The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut “Sculpture: The Language of Scale”, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut “Artists + Architects Challenges in Collaboration”, curator Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art |
| 1984 | “Anne et Patrick Poirier “Exhibition at the Chapelle Saint Louis de la Salpetriere and at the Galerie Daniel Templon, Galerie Daniel Templon Editions, Paris “Anne et Patrick Poirier”, Service Culturel de Villeurbanne, November |
| 1983 | “Connections”, by Janet Hardon, Institute of Contemporary Art University:of Pennsylvania “Anne et Patrick Poirier – Voyages etc … 1969 – 1983”, Electa Editions, Milan, Italy |
| 1982 | “Mondo Perdido”, Art Press, Paris, October |
| 1981 | “Fragmetns d’un Journal Anonyme”, Bicephale “Anne and Patrick Poirier Fragments d’un Journal Anonyme”, Maison de la Culture Chalon-sur-Saone |
| 1980 | “A G.D. Neumitz”, Taxis, October “Architectural Sculpture”, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, California, p. 80 “Architectural References”, The Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada |
| 1979 | “140 Notes Around a Round Utopia”, Paris |
| 1978 | “Anne and Patrick Poirier Fascination des Ruines”, Domus Aurea, by Gilbert Lescault, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France “Ann and Patrick Poirier” at Le Palais des Beaux Arts de Bruxelles and at Le Palais Voor Schone Kunsten, Bruxelles, “Petit Guide a l’Usage des Voyagers”, Bruxelles “A G.D. Neumitz”, Kunstforum, no. 28, April |
| 1977 | “Time”, Philadelphia College of Art, Pennsylvania “Europe in the 70’s: Aspects of Recent Art”, curator A.James Speyer, The Art Insitute of Chicago, Illinois |
| 1975 | “Les Paysages Revolus”, Sonnabend Editions, Paris “Les Realites Incompatibles”, Martin Berg Editions, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 1974 | “A la Memoire de Romulus”, Yellow Now Editions, Liege |
| 1973 | “Anne Poirier Patrick Poirier Romische Antike”, by Alten Kurhaus, Neue Galerie |
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Ludwig Museum, Vienna
Ludwig Museum, Cologne
Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany
Israel Musem, Jerusalem
Musee des Beaux Arts, Montreal
Musee d’Art Modern de la Ville de Paris
National Galerie, Berlin
Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Paris,
Musee National, Jerusalem, Israel
Neue Galerie, Aachen, Germany (Collection Dr. Peter Ludwig)
Museum of Modern Art, Krefeld, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, Sydney, Australia
Smithsonian Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
The Tate Gallery, London, England
Musee d’art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Musee Cantini, Marseille
Musee de Mantes, France
Frac, Bretagne, France
Frac, Midi-Pyrennes, France
Frac, Provence, Cote d’Azur, France
LITHOGRAPHIC EDITIONS
Rome, de Dominicis Editions
Cologne, Paul Maenz Editions
Rottweil, Kunstverein Editions
France, Manufacture de Sevres
Paris, Galerie Eolia
Paris, Artcurial
PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS
| 1990 | “Exegi Monumentum”, Pierre Ferrenbach Collection, Colmar, France “Oculus Memoriae”, Staadt Archiv Platz, Munich “Exegi Momentum”, Private Collection, Boccaraton, Fla “New Archetyes”, Washington Tower, Seattle |
| 1989/90 | “Un giardino a Torino”, Private Collection, Torino |
| 1989 | “Hommage a Claude-Nicolas Ledoux”, Le Ponant, Paris “The Fall of the Giant”, Joel and Sherry Malin Collection, Poundridge, NY |
| 1988 | “Exegi Monumentum Aere Perennius”, Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy |
| 1986 | “Petite mise en scene au bord de l’eau”, Private Collection, Washington “L’ame du voyageur endormi”, La Mas Saint-Anne, Lourmarin, France “Petite mise en scene au bord de l’eau”, Giardino di Villa Demidoff, Pratolino, Italy |
| 1985/86 | “Promenade Classique”, Alexandria, Virginia |
| 1984/85 | “La Fontaine des Geants”, Place du Tonkin, Villeurbanne, France “La grande colonne noire de Sucheres”, Auto-route Clermont-Ferrand, Saint-Etienne, France |
| 1983 | “Mimas”, Jardin du Musee d’Epinal, France “Encelade”, Jardin du Musee Picasso, Antibes, France |
| 1982 | “La morte di Efialte”, Fattoria di Celle, Pistoia, Italy |
THEATRE SCENE PAINTINGS
| 1990 | “Depot de Memoire et d’Oubli”, Anfitheatre de l’Opera Bastille, Paris |
| 1989 | “Ella”, by Artenbush, Anfiteatro del Museo Pecci, Prato Italy |
| 1985 | “Julius Cesar”, by Handel, Teatro dell’Opera, Rome |
| 1978 | “Don Juan”, by Moliere, Dusseldorf |