Vincent Beaurin

After studying at the École Boulle, a school of applied arts in Paris, Vincent Beaurin (b. 1960, Charleville-Mézières, France) first turned to painting. In 1998, drawing on his continued interest in the interplay of art and design, he established an agency that he would direct for four years before returning to the fine arts. Equally interested in contemporary forms and prehistoric art (he even learned to knap flints), Beaurin created a hybrid universe of forms and materials in which references to shamanic deities and cave paintings can be found, as well as ironic quotations from the formal vocabulary of modernity. Enseigne Animal Jaune [2003, Yellow Animal Sign] follows the ‘herd’ of similar animals that Beaurin realized for the 2003 exhibition Yanomami, l’esprit de la forêt [Yanomami, the Spirit of the Forest] at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, for which he created the scenery of a palaeolithic cave with ultramodern materials and shapes.