Born in Marseille into a family of Italian origin, C\u00e9sar Baldaccini studied at the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts in Marseille before continuing his training at the \u00c9cole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. From the 1950s onwards, he attracted attention with sculptures made from pieces of scrap iron and reclaimed metal, which he assembled and welded into new forms. In 1961, he joined the Nouveau R\u00e9alisme movement alongside artists including Arman, Yves Klein and Jean Tinguely. C\u00e9sar went on to develop several major bodies of work that would define his career: his welded iron sculptures, the celebrated Compressions and later the Expansions. Throughout his career, he continually explored the possibilities of materials, transforming elements from the industrial world into sculptures of remarkable expressive power. His work now occupies a major place in the history of twentieth-century French sculpture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":723,"featured_media":128220,"template":"","taxo_year_participe":[144],"class_list":["post-128080","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n