Exhibition DADO & Quentin Garel

Quentin Garel was born in Paris in 1975. Son of the sculptor Philippe Garel, he graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1998. He was a resident at the Casa de Velázquez (Madrid, Spain) from 1998 to 2000. His sculptural work is characterized by the creation of a bestiary, sometimes very realistic, centered on the animal figure and its skeletons. His work explores, based on the themes of animal trophies and paleontological remains, the complex relationships that man maintains with animals in their representation. An excellent draftsman, Garel works the subjects of his sculptures in advance on paper before shaping wood, bronze, or iron with great delicacy in the textures and a play on the excess of his works presented during exhibitions of scales such as “Le Magicien d’Os” (Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris – 2016; Venice – 2017), or his retrospectives at the Center d’Art Contemporain de la Matmut in Rouen (2019) and at the Domaine de Chamarande ( 2020).