Skip to main content
Almine Rech

Eric Croes Comme un vieux tatouage

Jan 11 — Feb 24, 2024 | Paris, Turenne

Opening on Thursday, January 11, 2024 from 6 to 8 pm

Almine Rech Paris is pleased to present Comme un vieux tatouage, Eric Croes second solo exhibition with the galleryon view from January 11 to February 24, 2024.

Eric Croes never returns from his travels empty-handed. The artist has developed a habit of collecting and keeping everything he has spotted, seen and loved while on the road. Not in the digital depths of his cell phone, but in passport-sized notebooks that never leave his pockets. He covers the pages with all sorts of notes, sketches, reproductions. His notebooks serve as his memory, traces and evidence of all his discoveries and experiences. Once back in his Brussels studio, he recomposes it all with his hands: he returns to clay everything he has collected along the way.

In that sense, Croes’ work is always composite, hybrid. When he crafts his powerful shapes, deep vases, golems or totems stemming from his roving imagination, he invites us to follow in his footsteps, to wander with him. His creations bear and express his intimate legends, skin-deep. Intertwined, tangled memories, experiences and fantasies.

– Boris Bergmann, writer and critic

Press release

  • read or download in English
  • lire ou télécharger en Français

Selected artworks

  • Eric Croes,                                      Totem Blue Fisherman, 2024

    Eric Croes Totem Blue Fisherman, 2024

    Glazed ceramic, concrete and steel
    195 x 47 x 47 cm
    77 x 18 1/2 x 18 1/2 in

  • Eric Croes,                                      Totem Red Monkey, 2024

    Eric Croes Totem Red Monkey, 2024

    Glazed ceramic, concrete and steel
    206 x 47 x 47 cm
    81 x 18 1/2 x 18 1/2 in

  • Eric Croes,                                      Totem Big Blue Monkey, 2024

    Eric Croes Totem Big Blue Monkey, 2024

    Glazed ceramic, concrete and steel
    204 x 57 x 47 cm
    80 1/2 x 22 1/2 x 18 1/2 in

  • Eric Croes,                                      Yellow Pacific Palisades, 2024

    Eric Croes Yellow Pacific Palisades, 2024

    Glazed ceramic
    75 x 42 x 45 cm
    29 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 17 1/2 in

  • Eric Croes,                                      Blue Lauenensee, 2024

    Eric Croes Blue Lauenensee, 2024

    Glazed ceramic
    66 x 51 x 42 cm
    26 x 20 x 16 1/2 in

  • Eric Croes,                                      Light Blue Monkeys Mountain, 2024

    Eric Croes Light Blue Monkeys Mountain, 2024

    Glazed ceramic
    68 x 51 x 41 cm
    27 x 20 x 16 in

  • Eric Croes,                                      Red Tozeur, 2024

    Eric Croes Red Tozeur, 2024

    Glazed ceramic
    60 x 50 x 42 cm
    23 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 16 1/2 in

  • Eric Croes,                                      Blue Ohara Village, 2024

    Eric Croes Blue Ohara Village, 2024

    Glazed ceramic
    67 x 38 x 42 cm
    26 1/2 x 15 x 16 1/2 in

  • Eric Croes,                                      Green South Kensington, 2024

    Eric Croes Green South Kensington, 2024

    Glazed ceramic
    67 x 46 x 45 cm
    26 1/2 x 18 x 17 1/2 in

  • Eric Croes,                                      Yellow Petit Palais, 2024

    Eric Croes Yellow Petit Palais, 2024

    Glazed ceramic
    68 x 51 x 39 cm
    27 x 20 x 15 1/2 in

  • Eric Croes,                                      Santa Monica Mirrors, 2024

    Eric Croes Santa Monica Mirrors, 2024

    Glazed ceramic and mirror
    Left: 35 x 29 x 6 cm - 14 x 11 1/2 x 2 1/2 in
    Right: 36 x 25 x 4 cm - 14 x 10 x 1 1/2 in

  • Eric Croes,                                      Isola Comacina Mirror, 2024

    Eric Croes Isola Comacina Mirror, 2024

    Glazed ceramic and mirror
    30 x 42 x 4 cm
    12 x 16 1/2 x 1 1/2 in

More on Eric Croes