Saint Clair Cemin
Saint Clair Cemin is a Brazilian born (1951) sculptor and painter. He lives and works in New York City. His work encompasses multiple styles, approaches, and materials, from furniture to toys in popular culture to the history of sculpture.[1]
Cemin became interested in sculpting as a teenager through inspirational conversations with intellectuals in his home city. Once interested in philosophy and physics, he began to focus his attention on art, drawing and working on illustrations for magazines.[2] Cemin earned his degree at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, from 1975-1978 where he learned printmaking for three years.[3] He moved to New York shortly after, where he experimented in several fields as a way of earning an income. From 1981 to 1983, Cemin worked in carpentry renovating lofts in New York, cabinet making, and finally sculpture.[4] The artist's first exhibited sculpture was The Granny Ashtray, which has been described as an anti-modernist piece.[5]
He has also published a book of his writings through Edgewise Press titled, Fragments of a Mind: Stories and Comments on Art 1987-2004.
Collections
Saint Clair Cemin's work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France; Rooseum, Stockholm, Sweden; and the Eli Broad Foundation, Los Angeles,[6] among many others.
He has executed many private and public commissions, among them the Reston Town Center, Virginia; Båstads Kommun, Sweden; and Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, Illinois. He received the Biennial Award from the Ueno Royal Museum and the Hakone Open-Air Museum in Japan in 1995.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2012 Espejo Borroco, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Canaria, Spain[7]
- 2012 SIX, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
- 2012 Saint Clair Cemin on Broadway, Broadway Mall Association, New York, NY [8]
- 2011 Triumfo da Razao Natural, Luciano Brita Galeria, São Paulo
- 2010 Splendeur et Misere, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
- 2010 Pensamentos, Bolso de Arte, Porto Alegre
- 2009 Retrospective: Da Pureza ao Enigma, Instituto Tomie Ohtake,São Paulo, Brazil[9]
References
- ↑ Brenson, Michael (21 September 1990). "Review/Art; Wide Sculptural World Of Saint Clair Cemin". The New York Times.
- ↑ Kaneda, Shirley (1994). "Saint Clair Cemin". Bomb Magazine.
- ↑ Ibid
- ↑ Ibid
- ↑ Ibid
- ↑ The Broad Art Foundation - Artists in Collection
- ↑ Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno - Espejo Borroco
- ↑ Broadway Mall Association - Saint Clair Cemin on Broadway
- ↑ Instituto Tomie Ohtake - Retrospective
- Richard Milazzo, Saint Clair Cemin: Sculptor from Cruz Alta. New York: Brent Sikkema Editions, October 2005.
- Spears, Dorothy, "Works Culled From Wanderlust Find a Home," The New York Times, 08/29/13.
- Hart Chambers, Christopher, "Waltz of the Apparitions: A Conversation with Saint Clair Cemin," Sculpture, January/February, 2009.