Didier Marcel was born in 1961. He lives and works in Dijon. After studying art in Besançon and Paris, he spent a year at the Institut national des hautes études en arts plastiques, under the direction of Serge Fauchereau, Pontus Hulten, Sarkis, and Daniel Buren. He began exhibiting in 1988 and notably participated in the Ateliers de l’ARC.
For about fifteen years, Didier Marcel has been developing sculptural work in which objects and constructions drawn from reality coexist, which he most often reproduces at a reduced scale or in different materials. Appropriating forms from architecture, housing, or tools, as well as natural elements such as trees or bales of straw, he gives them a new, autonomous existence, devoid of any functionality.
Over time, objects and spatial constructions give way to increasingly sophisticated models. Cabins, shelters, garages, modest and precarious architectures, often abandoned, are the models that interest him.
