14 Facts About Pascal Convert

Pascal Convert was born on 1957 and is a French visual artist.

Pascal Convert has made sculpture, installations and videos, and has published several books.

Pascal Convert is perhaps best known for his monument to the hostages and Resistance fighters who were shot at Mont Valerien during World War II.

For many years Convert taught at a technical college in Bayonne.

Pascal Convert is the subject of a book La Demeure, la souche: L'Apparentement de l'artiste by Georges Didi-Huberman.

In 2002 Pascal Convert received a commission from the French state to create a monument to the hostages and French Resistance fighters shot at Mont Valerien between 1941 and 1944.

Pascal Convert made a documentary film, Mont Valerien, aux noms des fusilles.

In 2007 Pascal Convert published a historical biography of Joseph Epstein, a leader of the Franc Tireurs Partisans in the Ile-de-France who was shot at Mont Valerien in 1944.

Pascal Convert made a sculpture commissioned by the Fonds national d'art contemporain and the Musee d'art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, inspired by La Pieta du Kosovo, La Madone de Benthala and La mort de Mohamed Al Dura a Gaza.

Pascal Convert's work focuses on the question of memory and forgetting.

Pascal Convert uses a wide range of techniques, from traditional molding, prints, Japanese lacquer and metalwork to computer modelling, image synthesis and digital animation.

Pascal Convert's projects include Trois Villas, a series of drawings of three abandoned villas on the coast near Biarritz and Appartement de l'artiste, which explores the interior of his former apartment in Bordeaux.

Pascal Convert's work has been shown in France at the Centre d'arts plastiques contemporains in Bordeaux, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Centre Georges Pompidou, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes.

Pascal Convert's work has been exhibited at other galleries and public buildings in France and elsewhere in Europe including Madrid, Karlsruhe, Hamburg and Berlin.