With bronze, terra cotta and plaster, Marc Petit created his first sculptures of human beings. Lonely characters with a gloomy look. They seemed lost, and were dominated by oppressiveness or spite. The body has a tired, disembodied look. One doesn’t know if it’s a tragedy or a floating moment, like a soul wandering in a limbo. When we are in front of these figures, we put a distance but a voyeuristic one, more confused rather than empathetic.
Marc Petit realized his first personal exhibition at the age of 24 and slowly made his name among galleries and collectors.
1989: He gets the Fondation de France Award.
1993: He receives the Charles Oulmont Foundation Award.