Jean-Baptiste SAUVAGE
Jean-Baptiste Sauvage’s work transcends specific mediums, engaging with urban, industrial, and architectural spaces through paintings, sculptures, and lighting installations. His practice often reintroduces advertising imagery into real-world contexts or explores site-specific research, as in his Olt project. Many works stem from in situ interventions, such as his wall paintings series (2011, 2017).
Beyond installations, Sauvage questions archiving and often integrates publishing as an extension of his process. His approach resists fixed methodologies, favoring adaptability to each project’s context, with formal discrepancies serving as key conceptual triggers.
Jean-Baptiste SAUVAGE
Tucson, April 2022. A Vietnam War helicopter at the aviation museum with this design painted on its nose. The same design appears on a wall in this Tucson neighborhood, where many homeless people, sometimes former soldiers, roam the streets with their belongings under often scorching heat.
Kurtz—that’s the name of the dissident colonel, Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now. This painting is for him, for them.
Location : Plata St. Tucson AZ
Symetria was truly drawn to this project. We have a strong connection to Tucson and are particularly sensitive to the themes of “Apocalypse Now”, which resonate deeply with us. This affinity naturally led to a collaboration with Jean-Baptiste on an edition project, expanding on the original work. We recently met to refine the vision and define the next steps, and we’re excited to see it come to life soon.
Stay tuned !
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