Saint Clair Cemin

Saint Clair Cemin
Education École Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris 1975-78
Website saintclaircemin.net

Saint Clair Cemin is a Brazilian 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.[2] 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.[2] The artist's first exhibited sculpture was The Granny Ashtray, which has been described as an anti-modernist piece.[2]

Throughout the 1980s Cemin became an integral part of NY's east village art scene which included a circle of important contemporary artists such as Jeff Koons.[3] Some of his works from this era are on permanent exhibition at important institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.[4]

After those formative years in NYC Cemin moved to Egypt and then Paris to pursue sculpture in different environments and with different mediums. After 2010 he returned to NY and continues to create sculptural works in his Brooklyn studio. In 2012 he had a major public exhibition of works along Broadway in Manhattan.[3] Of the several works exhibited on Broadway one "vortex" at the corner of 57th street and Broadway, stood some 40 feet tall.[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.

Public monuments

One of Cemin's sculptures, Porto Alegre, Brazil

In 1990 Saint Clair Cemins' first public sculpture was installed in the town of Reston, Virginia. Since then he has had large public monuments installed throughout the world, including "Open" in Schaumberg, Illinois, "Tree" in Bergen, Norway, "Spring" in Båstads Kommun, Sweden.[6] The monument, "Supercuia", pictured aside, is in Porto Alegre, Brazil and was completed in 2003.[7] He received the Biennial Award from the Ueno Royal Museum and the Hakone Open-Air Museum in Japan in 1995.[8]

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,[9] among many others.

Selected solo exhibitions

References

  1. ↑ Brenson, Michael (21 September 1990). "Review/Art; Wide Sculptural World Of Saint Clair Cemin". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Kaneda, Shirley (1994). "Saint Clair Cemin". Bomb Magazine.
  3. 1 2 Spears, Dorothy (29 August 2012). "Works Culled From Wanderlust Find a Home". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  4. ↑ "Dasein Chair". Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  5. ↑ Frost, Emily (11 September 2012). "Surrealist Sculptures Pop Up Along Broadway Mall". DNAinfo New York. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "Saint-Clair Cemin, Brazilian (1951 - )". RoGallery.com. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  7. ↑ "Supercuia". Saint Clair Cemin. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  8. ↑ "Saint Clair Cemin". cheimread.com. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  9. ↑ "Selected Artists". The Broad Art Foundation. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  10. ↑ "Saint-Clair Cemin Espejo Borroco - 'Baroque mirror'". Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  11. ↑ "Saint Clair Cemin on Broadway". Broadway Mall Association. Archived from the original on 13 March 2013. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
  12. ↑ "Saint Clair Cemin" (in Portuguese). Instituto Tomie Ohtake. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
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