Élisabeth Ballet (born 1956), is a French sculptor.
Ballet was born on 11 December 1956 at
Cherbourg
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, in
Normandy
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. She was in residence at the
Villa Medici
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Ballet is interested in the combination of abstraction and subject taken from reality. Based on her perception of space, she has defined a program which adjusts her desires and her way of working.
Her work involves questions of movement in space, of the articulation of the outside and the inside, the transition from words to things, from drawing to sculpture, wall to center, plan to volume and more generally from one work to another. Her sculpture represents thought in action; it is totally readable (transparent surfaces, recording of their environment) and keeps the spectator at a distance. In other words, it requires the mind to wander.
Quote
* "''Je sculpte l'espace par l'obstacle, par la limite."
Göppingen
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, (Germany);
* 2004 : ''C'est beau dehors'', Galerie Cent8 – Serge Le Borgne, Paris, France;
* 2004 : ''Élisabeth Ballet'', Centre culturel français de Milan,
Milan
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Saint-Nazaire
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The town has a major harbour on the right bank of the Loire estuary, near the Atlantic Ocean ...
, France;
* 2008 : ''Lazy Days'', Galerie Serge le Borgne, Paris, France.
; Group exhibitions
* 2010 : ''Group show'',
, Paris, France;
* 2010 : ''Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism'',
Hyde Park Art Center
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, Chicago, IL, USA; Institute of Visual Arts Milwaukee,
Milwaukee
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, USA; MONA Museum of New Art – Detroit's Contemporary Museum,
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, Paris, France;
* 2008 : FIAC 08, Parc des expos, Paris, France.
; Collections
* FRAC Bourgogne.
; Public orders
* Two-tone pavement, repeating a lace pattern, Place du Pot-d'Étain in
Pont-Audemer
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