artist: Gerard Cambon

title: Orange Merry-Go-Round, 2012

inventory: GC 3991

media: Mixed media assemblage

size: 30 x 36 x 12 inches

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artist: Gerard Cambon

title: Small Merry-Go-Round, 2012

inventory: GC 3992

media: Mixed media assemblage

size: 13 x 16 x 7 inches

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artist: Gerard Cambon

title: Veneziamobile, 2010

inventory: GC 3609

media: Mixed media assemblage

size: 20 x 5 x 4 inches

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artist: Gerard Cambon

title: Les Cabanons, 2012

inventory: GC 3994

media: Mixed media assemblage

size: 26 x 15 x 9 inches

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artist: Gerard Cambon

title: Les Cabanons, (detail)

inventory: GC 3994

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artist: Gerard Cambon

title: Explorateur No. 1, 2010

inventory: GC 3610

media: Mixed media assemblage

size: 14.5 x 7 x 3.5 inches

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artist: Gerard Cambon

title: Saddleloco, 2005

inventory: GC 1361

media: Mixed media assemblage

size: 26 x 15 x 9 inches

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artist: Gerard Cambon

title: Soures Anne, 2010

inventory: GC 3151

media: Mixed media assemblage

size: 16 x 13 x 5 inches

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artist: Gerard Cambon

title: Le Mur de Palques, 2010

inventory: GC 3155

media: Mixed media assemblage

size: 14 x 19 x 6 inches

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artist: Gerard Cambon

title: L'Express 1, 2010

inventory: GC 3542

media: Mixed media assemblage

size: 13 x 7.5 x 9 inches

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artist: Gerard Cambon

title: Explorateur V, 2010

inventory: GC 3543

media: Mixed media assemblage

size: 14.5 x 4 x 7.5 inches

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artist: Gerard Cambon

title: L'Express 2, 2010

inventory: GC 3544

media: Mixed media assemblage

size: 13.5 x 6.5 x 8 inches

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artist: Gerard Cambon

title: Canton Ginger 2, 2010

inventory: GC 3546

media: Mixed media assemblage

size: 15.5 x 14 x 3.5 inches

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artist: Gerard Cambon

title: La Pharmacie, 2010

inventory: GC 3547

media: Mixed media assemblage

size: 13 x 15 x 8 inches

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artist: Gerard Cambon

title: Le Silo 2, 2010

inventory: GC 3548

media: Mixed media assemblage

size: 11.5 x 13 x 4.5 inches

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artist: Gerard Cambon

title: Kwatta, 2010

inventory: GC 3600

media: Mixed media assemblage

size: 17 x 12 x 6 inches

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artist: Gerard Cambon

title: Craven A, 2010

inventory: GC 3601

media: Mixed media assemblage

size: 12.5 x 14.5 x 6.5 inches

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artist: Gerard Cambon

title: Confinement, 2010

inventory: GC 3602

media: Mixed media assemblage

size: 12 x 9 x 3.5 inches

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artist: Gerard Cambon

title: Fantasmobile, 2010

inventory: GC 3603

media: Mixed media assemblage

size: 10.5 x 13 x 4 inches

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artist: Gerard Cambon

title: Epuromobile No. 9, 2010

inventory: GC 3604

media: Mixed media assemblage

size: 8 x 11.5 x 5.5 inches

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artist: Gerard Cambon

title: Epuromobile No. 1, 2010

inventory: GC 3605

media: Mixed media assemblage

size: 12 x 9 x 3.25 inches

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artist: Gerard Cambon

title: Barbare (Barbarian), 2006

inventory: GC 3606

media: Mixed media assemblage

size: 14 x 3.5 x 7.5 inches

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artist: Gerard Cambon

title: Loco-Mouli-Julienne, 2009

inventory: GC 3607

media: Mixed media assemblage

size: 24 x 9.5 x 9 inches

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artist: Gerard Cambon

title: Loco A Vapeur, 2006

inventory: GC 3608

media: Mixed media assemblage

size: 12 x 8.5 x 4 inches

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Gerard Cambon (b. 1960)

Gerard Cambon is a self-taught artist living and working in Paris creating evocative constructions composed primarily of found materials. In 1992 he started to collect and insert different materials into his models by including found materials such as wood, leather, and old iron, as these objects incorporated a natural patina into his work. Most of his materials were found in the south of France where his family maintains an old farm, barns and a small winery, although he is always in search of new objects, tools and fragments that are old and display discernable signs of previous use.

In 1994 Cambon began to create “locomobiles” and bas-reliefs and presented them to the public at La June Peinture, a Parisian arts fair. He describes these two forms as complimentary. The locomobiles express the joy of movement, the freedom of dreams and escape, while the bas-reliefs function as a release from his feelings of confinement and detention.

The bas-reliefs are dark, thick and dense. They are meant to represent everyday difficulties and the impact that society has on everyone. Even if they seem afraid, mean, belligerent or lost, the figures within are not desperate or hopeless. They may be looking outside from within but they are curious and interested in the world. Gerard has described the process of making the bas-reliefs as peaceful and private. Only once that the private little worlds are created does he begin to introduce the figure.