Philippe Ramette is one of the best known and most original French artists on the contemporary art scene today. His arrival in Hong Kong will have all the fan-fare of an anniversary.
When he was invited to Hong Kong by the Alliance Française ten years ago, he created “Le Balcon 2” (The Balcony 2) - an extraordinary performance which was at once unusual, philosophical and highly poetic; an image of which appeared in the world press.
Impeccably dressed in a black suit, he crossed the Hong Kong Bay in a wooden balcony that floated horizontally on the South China Sea, giving us a new outlook on the world and an irrational perception of the sky over one ofthe busiest ports on the planet.
Philippe Ramette scours the world alone - seas, deserts, mountains, seabed – carefully observing it and placing himself in meditative positions which defy gravity and logic. His work is “an invitation to experiment: with weightlessness, with perception, with falling”.
Discreet and seemingly unflappable, he possesses a devastating wit, combining profound thinking on art and the human condition and making him one of the greatest contemporary artists, in the same vein as Duchamp, Dada and Michaux – mixed with a touch of Buster Keaton.Ramette is a meticulous and mischievous thinker who takes language literally and makes us sway from the rational to the irrational.
-Le French May
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