Raphaël Zarka
Raphaël Zarka was born in 1977 in Montpellier, France.
Lives and works in Paris, France.
Raphaël Zarka graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and from the Winchester School of Art (UK). His work in the expanded field of sculpture also includes photography, drawing and writing. He is notably the author of three essays on forms and spaces of skateboarding, in which he puts forward a transversal and transdisciplinary approach to popular cultures.
Zarka's work method resembles that of a researcher or an archaeologist, he even describes his works as "documentary sculptures". He is particularly interested by the migration of certain, often marginal, geometric forms borrowed to art and ornament history, science, and technology. In appropriating these forms by way of replicas and reconstructions, he relocates them in the field of visual arts, thus updating their usage and meaning, all the while emphasizing their permanence. The artist also appeals to a modular and combinatory approach to sculpture, generating forms and structures from a given module. This technique of integrating movement into his work is even more explicit when he creates practicable works such as his iconic Paving Space series.
His work is part of many French institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Val-de-Marne in Vitry as well as in six French regional contemporary art collections (FRAC) and at the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP). His works also feature in the international collections such as the ones of the Mudam in Luxembourg (MUDAM), BPS22 - Musée d'art de la Province de Hainaut, Charleroi, the Museum of New and Old Art in Hobart (MONA), Tasmania, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris/San Francisco, and the Zabludowicz collection in London, amongst others.
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Rampe Cycloïdale, 2018View more details
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Abstraction Gnomonique 01, 2020View more details
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Abstraction Gnomonique 11, 2020View more details
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Abstraction Gnomonique nº15 (version 1), 2020View more details
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Abstraction Gnomonique nº15 (version 2), 2020View more details
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Adler nº1, 2022View more details
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Floris nº1, 2022View more details
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L'Oisellerie, 2022View more details
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Lavaur nº1, 2022View more details
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Lescours nº1, 2022View more details
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L’Oisellerie nº1, 2022View more details
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Suite Serlienne 5 P.2, 2022View more details
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À Trélazé, une oeuvre gigantesque: "C'est la première fois que je sculpte à une telle échelle"
Emmanuel Poupard, Ouest France, December 8, 2023 -
Raphaël Zarka, un artiste sur la piste de Buckminster Fuller
Juliette Bessette, Centre Pompidou, June 19, 2023 -
ARTIST-SMUGGLERS
Catherine Francblin, ARTPRESS, January 23, 2023
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RAPHAËL ZARKA - INSTITUT FRANÇAIS DE TOKYO
17.02 > 21.04.2024 February 8, 2024The Fondation d'entreprise Hermès and the Institut français de Tokyo are pleased to announce the exhibition Riding Modern Art by French artist Raphaël Zarka. Raphaël...Read more -
RAPHAËL ZARKA - MAISON HERMÈS GINZA
16.02 > 31.05.2024 February 7, 2024The Hermès Foundation is holding an exhibition called 'Ecology: Dialogue around Circulation', which questions the practice of ecology in art.It consists of two dialogues: a...Read more -
RAPHAËL ZARKA - LA DOUBLURE, TRÉLAZÉ
Inauguration le 14.07.2024 January 3, 2024Dernier acte de la revitalisation du site, La Doublure , une création du plasticien Raphaël Zarka est récemment engagée. En regard des vestiges de l’unique...Read more -
RAPHAËL ZARKA - RAMPE CYCLOÏDALE À ROUEN
23.09.2023 September 23, 2023On Saturday September 23, 2023, Raphaël Zarka's La Rampe cycloïde will be inaugurated on the square in front of the Hôtel de Ville, place du...Read more -
RAPHAËL ZARKA - MUDAM, LUXEMBOURG
30.06.2023 > 18.02.2024 June 27, 2023Deep Deep Down Collections are only exhibited to a small extent. Much of the art rarely sees the light of day. What if we rendered...Read more -
RAPHAËL ZARKA - FONDATION D'ENTREPRISE MARTELL
30.06 > 31.12.2023 June 27, 2023The Almanach exhibition is the inaugural research project of the Fondation d'entreprise Martell, which, after 5 years of existence, is becoming a platform for research...Read more -
RAPHAËL ZARKA - L'INCLINÉE - LES SUBS, LYON, FR
28.09.2022 - 08.10.2022 October 1, 2022 Read more -
RAPHAËL ZARKA - OUT OF CONTROL - AUDAIN ART MUSEUM, WHISTLER, CA
17.09.2022 - 08.01.2023 October 1, 2022 Read more -
RAPHAËL ZARKA - CYCLOID LEDGES - SKATESHOP NOZBONE, PARIS, FR
From 8 september 2022 October 1, 2022 Read more -
RAPHAËL ZARKA - PAR ENCHANTEMENT - BIENNALE D'ENGHIEN, BE
Artwork visible until 2025 October 1, 2022 Read more -
RAPHAËL ZARKA - BOTTEGA VENETA - SAN FRANCISCO, USA
Opening in July 2022 October 1, 2022 Read more