Anne and Patrick Poirier
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Anne and Patrick Poirier (born 31 March 1942 in Marseille and 5 May 1942 in Nantes) are a French art duo.
in Paris
.
After winning the Prix de Rome
, they lived from 1969 to 1971 in the Villa Medici
in Rome as fellows of the Académie de France à Rome.
, disintegration, loss and remembering. As they articulate it, "we believe that ignorance or the destruction of cultural memory brings in its wake every sort of oblivion, falsehood and excess and that we must, with all the modest means at our disposal, oppose this generalized amnesia and destruction." http://www.gaydarradio.co.uk/UserPortal/Article/Detail.aspx?ID=3731&sid=52&gnbox_cn=0&gnbox_ca=4
Biography
From 1963 to 1966 they studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifsÉcole nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs
The École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs is a public university of art and design and is one of the most prestigious French grande école...
in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
.
After winning the Prix de Rome
Prix de Rome
The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was created, initially for painters and sculptors, in 1663 in France during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by...
, they lived from 1969 to 1971 in the Villa Medici
Villa Medici
The Villa Medici is a mannerist villa and an architectural complex with a garden contiguous with the larger Borghese gardens, on the Pincian Hill next to Trinità dei Monti in Rome, Italy. The Villa Medici, founded by Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and now property of the French...
in Rome as fellows of the Académie de France à Rome.
Style
Though they have worked in a variety of media—photography, drawing, installation and monumental public sculpture—their oeuvre has always dealt with themes surrounding memory, archeology, ruins, memento moriMemento mori
Memento mori is a Latin phrase translated as "Remember your mortality", "Remember you must die" or "Remember you will die". It names a genre of artistic work which varies widely, but which all share the same purpose: to remind people of their own mortality...
, disintegration, loss and remembering. As they articulate it, "we believe that ignorance or the destruction of cultural memory brings in its wake every sort of oblivion, falsehood and excess and that we must, with all the modest means at our disposal, oppose this generalized amnesia and destruction." http://www.gaydarradio.co.uk/UserPortal/Article/Detail.aspx?ID=3731&sid=52&gnbox_cn=0&gnbox_ca=4