Roland Piche

HAYHILLGALLERY

A selection of original paintings

R O L A N D P I C H E By

Claudie Bastide

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Roland PichĂŠ was born in London in 1938 and emerged in the early sixties at a time of great changes as a radical student from Hornsey College of Art and the Royal College of Art. During his eight years of study he was recognised as an independent new voice supported by Henry Moore who he worked for part-time, by Francis Bacon and by Bryan Robertson who through the New Generation Exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery soon attracted the Marlborough Fine Art Galleries.

PichĂŠs work did not belong to any school of thought or group and his work has always been complex and contradictory.

The influence and admiration of American art together with the inheritance of the humanist European traditions, formal issues of ancient Egyptian art in the context of ideas from the oriental attitudes and philosophy, made his evolution problematic and seemingly divided; the struggle and quest to resolve this is evident in most of his work.

Pouring Vessel 1 42x52x52cm Resin 1/5 Gilded Bronze 2/3/4/5 Edition of 5

Cone of Transformations 35.5x16.5x14cm Gilded Bronze Edition of 4

Deep Waters 25x53x69cm Resin and stone 1/2 Bronze 2/2 Edition of 2

Seated Figure 65x25x63cm Gilded Bronze Edition of 8

Head of Transformations 62x18.5x22cm Gilded Bronze Edition of 6

Biography Main exhibitions One Person Exhibitions: 1967 Marlborough New London Gallery 1969 Gallery Ad Libitum, Antwerp B Middelheim Biennale, Antwerp B 1975 Canon Park, Birmingham 1980 The Ikon Gallery, Birmingham Minories Galleries, Colchester “Spaceframes & Circles” 1993 Kopp-Bardellini Agent Gallery, Zurich CH 2001Glaxo Smith Kline – Harlow Research Centre 2006Sculpture in The Garden, Botanic Garden Leicester Group Exhibitions 1962Towards Art I, Royal College of Art 1963-4 Young Contemporaries, AID Gallery 1964 Young Contemporary Artists, Whitechapel Gallery Maidstone College of Art Students, Show New Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone 1965Towards Art II, Royal College of Art Sculpture of Arts Council The New Generation 1965, Whitechapel Gallery Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester Summer Exhibition Marlborough New London Gallery 4th Biennale de Paris

1970Kelpra Prints, Hayward Gallery Southbank British Sculpture out of the Sixties, ICA 1971Le Surrealisme et son Ombre Portee, Baudunst Gallery, Cologne 1972British Sculptors 1972, Royal Academy of Arts Silver Jubilee Exhib. – Contemp. Brit. Sculpture, Battersea Park, London British Sculpture, Redfern Gallery Eight Sculptures – Two Decades, Oriel Gallery, Welsh Art Gallery 1987Revelation for the Hands, Leeds City Art Gallery The Mead Gallery, University of Warwick Arts Centre 1989-93Sculpture at Canterbury, Herbert Read Gallery 1992 R.B.S Exhibition, Woodland Gallery, Blackheath, London Selected Exhibitions, Minories Gallery, Colchester 1993The Sixties, Barbican Gallery, London Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London 1995Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London Tower Bridge Piazza Sculpture Expo 95 Gallery Differentiate & Coombes Contemporary 1996Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London 1997Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London 1998Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London Paper Works, Royal West of England Academy Diana Moon Gallery, Piccadilly, London 2004Spectrum Exhibition, London 2006Sculpture in The Garden, Botanic Garden Leicester 2007 'Southwold' The East Coast, Chappel galleries, Essex 2007 ‘Originals’ Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2007-8 Arts Council Collection - Sculpture at McLaren Technology Centre, Working, Surrey 2007 Bridehall Garden Sculpture Exhibition - Herts 2007 Chichester Festivities - 'Sculpture in Paradise', West Sussex

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