Guillaume Barth — À propos — Slash Paris

Guillaume Barth was born in 1985 in Colmar, and lives and works between Sélestat in Alsace and Amatlán de Quetzalcoatl in Mexico. He graduated from the National Studio of Contemporary Arts in Fresnoy in 2021 and from the Art Department of the Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts in 2012. He is the recipient of the Martel Catala Foundation Prize for the book project The New Forest in 2023, the Talents Contemporains Prize from the François Schneider Foundation in Wattwiller (FR) in 2019, the Bullukian Foundation Prize in Lyon (FR) in 2017, and the Théophile Schuler Prize (FR) in 2015. He participated in the 61st Salon de Montrouge in Paris (FR) in 2016.

“My ideas are built from different places, they have original forms that seem to drift apart, but when looked at more closely, their invisible part overlaps into a single whole. For nearly a decade, the formal and semantic forces that emerge from my sculptures—simple forms and forms of nature, motifs of the sphere, the cycle, and openness, the phenomenon of absorption and visual reflection, geographical exploration, realized fictions, transcultural narratives, inscription in landscapes, appearance and disappearance, blossoming and rooting—have tried to make sense through an approach that is as sensitive, reflective, and artifactual. It is characterized, before any gesture, by an attentiveness to the elements of the Living world.”

Guillaume Barth, 2023