Philippe Ramette
Born in 1961 in Auxerre, France, Philippe Ramette lives and works in Paris.
Most known for his staged photographs of physically improbable situations, Philippe Ramette simultaneously clarifies and complicates ways of how we see and view the world. To experience an exhibition by Philippe Ramette is to enter a field of questions regarding what is tangible, or what can constitute the physically plausible. In Philippe Ramette’s work, drawings play the role of schematic drafts for fleeting conceptual whims. They often represent a sort of crystallization of absurdist propositions, dreamlike notions where the laws of physics and logic no longer hold sway. Consequently, his indexical-scale sculptures present a similar will to illustrate the possibilities for entropy within the realm of the rational. The artist feeds off of banal experience to expose its potentially uncanny cracks, or to propose extraordinary associations that serve to show the precariousness nature of the codes that govern our daily lives. If one were to summarize the meta-narrative driving the work of Philippe Ramette, one might say that he rationalizes the irrational by defying the world of physical laws, thus rendering his improbable propositions plausible.
Philippe Ramette’s work is visible in various public spaces: his sculpture Eloge du pas de côté, installed on the Place du Bouffay in Nantes in 2018 for the Voyage à Nantes festival, has become permanent. A large-scale installation, Eloge du déplacement, was inaugurated in Nice in the summer of 2018 and can now be seen along the new tram line.
Several solo exhibitions have been dedicated to his work in France and abroad, most notably at the Le Voyage à Nantes, France (2018), Polygone Riviera, Cagnes-sur-Mer (2017), Centre régional d’art contemporain, Sète, (2016), Espace Malraux, Chambery (2016), Vitrines sur l’art, la Coupole des Galeries Lafayette, Paris (2014), Institut Français, Lasi, Roumania (2014), Fondation Pablo Atchugarry, Punta del Este, Uruguay (2013), and a traveling exhibition in Indian with Alliance Française (2012-2013). In 2017, his work was the subject of a solo exhibition at Parvis, Scène nationale Tarbes Pyrénées, as well as at Entrepôt 9, galerie Barnoud, Dijon.
Public and private collections (selection): Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (Paris), MAC/VAL (Vitry-sur- Seine), MAMCO (Geneva), Maison Européenne de la Photograhie (Paris), SMAK, Museum Van Hedendaage Kunst (Gand), Israel Museum (Jerusalem), Fondation Neuflize (Paris), Société Générale (La Défense, France).
Works
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Philippe Ramette
Eloge du pas de côté, 2018
C-print
150 x 120 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
Éloge du pas de côté, Nantes - Le Voyage à Nantes 2018 © Martin Argyroglo _ LVAN - ADAGP
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
Sans Titre (Deauville), 2014
C-print
150 x 120 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
Sans Titre (Deauville), 2014
C-print
150 x 120 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
Untitled, 2015
C-print, 100 x 80 cm or 150 x 120 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
Eloge du déséquilibre, 2020
Bronze, black marble and wood
Bronze :40 x 34 x 7 cm
Marble base : 18 x 15 x 15 cm
148 x 35 x 35 cm (overall dimensions)
Photographer: Marc Domage.
Courtesy of the artist and Xippas
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Philippe Ramette
L'installation (Place publique d'intérieur), 2011
Stone and patinated bronze
Sculpture: 83,8 x 83, x 101,6 cm
Platform: 130 x 90 x 90 cm, base: 200 x 200 cm
Speacker: 325 x 70 x 325 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
Sans titre (la silhouette n°1), 2012
Painted resin, wood
Character: 174 x 66 x 45 cm
Base: 100 x 95 x 90 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
Espace VIP individuel, 2016
Laiton, bois, tapis
120,5 x 345 x 121 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
Courtesy of the artist and Xippas
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Philippe Ramette
La Sortie des Artistes, 2016
Bois, laiton
Avec socle : 256,9 x 149,9 x 60 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
Sans titre provisoire (vanité), 2016
Bronze, bois, laiton
Hors socle : 15 x 19 x 14 cm
Avec socle : 121 x 40,5 x 34,5 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
L'explorateur, 2011
Painted polyester resin
165 x 130 x 55 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
Punching-stone, 2008
Stainless stell, wood and stone
105 x 62 x 63 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
La Traversée du Miroir (image arrêtée), 2007
Wood and mirror
Mirror: 210 x 97 x 10 cm
Base: 17 x 148 x 120 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
Exploration rationnelle des fonds sous-marins : la sieste, 2006
C-print
150 x 120 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
Exploration rationnelle des fonds sous-marins : l'arrivée, 2006
C-print
150 x 120 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
Exploration rationnelle des fonds sous-marins : promenade irrationnelle, 2006
C-print
150 x 120 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
Exploration rationnelle des fonds sous-marins : le contact, 2006
C-print
150 x 120 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
Promenade irrationnelle, 2003
C-print
150 x 120 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
Espace Meeting, 2007
Bench, desk, stage
Installation: 500 x 900 x 115 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
Ascension rationnelle, 2003
Color photograph
150 x 120 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
Crise de désinvolture, 2003
Color photograph
150 x 120 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
Etranges handicaps (la crise d'apesanteur), 2001
Ink and pencil on paper
32 x 24 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
Drapeau mondialiste d'intérieur, 2001
Ink and pencil on paper
24 x 32 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
Projet photographique. Contemplation irrationnelle, 2003
Ink on paper
32 x 24 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
Projet : "Bombe humaine pacifique", 2005
Ink on paper
32 x 24 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
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Philippe Ramette
Lévitation de chaise n°III, 2005
Ink on paper
32 x 24 cm
Photographer: Marc Domage.
Courtesy of the artist and Xippas
