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Jean-Baptiste Janisset, Firmament (2022). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris.
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Jean-Baptiste Janisset, Firmament (2022). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris.
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Jean-Baptiste Janisset, Vers l'infine et au-delà (2022). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris.
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Jean-Baptiste Janisset, Vers l'infine et au-delà (2022). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris.
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Jean-Baptiste Janisset, Firmament (2022). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris.
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Jean-Baptiste Janisset, Firmament (2022). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris.
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Jean-Baptiste Janisset, Premier jour sur terre (2022). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris.
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Jean-Baptiste Janisset, L'apparition (2022). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris.
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Jean-Baptiste Janisset, Envolée celeste (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris.
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Jean-Baptiste Janisset, L'abondance aveugle (2022). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris.
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Jean-Baptiste Janisset, Une de nos vie (2022). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris.
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Jean-Baptiste Janisset, Le baisier des anges (2022). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris.
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Jean-Baptiste Janisset, Soleil irradiant (2022). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris.
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Jean-Baptiste Janisset, Salutation à Sagittaruis A* (2022). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris.
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Jean-Baptiste Janisset, Salutation à Sagittaruis A* (2022). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris.

A cabinet of curiosities evoking worship, crypts & cultural symbolism in the ornate lead castings of Jean-Baptiste Janisset

, 25 April 2022

Firmament, a solo exhibition by Jean-Baptiste Janisset, was on at Paris’ Galerie Alain Gutharc, running March 11 to April 15.

Jean-Baptiste Janisset, Firmament (2022). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris.

With ornate lead castings and metal alloy colourations, the work derives from the artist’s explorations across European places of worship, monuments and crypts. Venturing across these culturally loaded sites and collecting plaster moulds, his travels from the south of France to Catalonia via Paris, as Ingrid Luquet-Gad notes in the exhibition text, “was undertaken under the auspices of an energetic quest,” resulting in a cabinet of curiosities style assortment of symbols.**

Jean-Baptiste Janisset’s Firmament was on at Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, running March 11 to April 15, 2022.