Jean Clareboudt (1944-1997). The poetic ritualistic object consists of animal skin which is wrapped and tied around a collaged glass sheet, a handwritten shaped poem on paper, a tape cassette in a plastic pocket sewn onto cloth, a metal plate with a colored photograph of a mutilated man, and a folded newspaper tied with rope and sealed with a mud-like substance. It has the same sensability as works by the Vienna Action Group. Jean Clareboudt was born in 1944, worked in Paris, and died in an automobile accident in Turkey in 1997.Clareboudt studied from 1961 to 1965 at the Ecole supérieure d'arts graphiques Penninghen in Paris. In 1962 he met and studied at the Danish sculptor Robert Jacobsen , who he later visited in Denmark. In 1967 he studied with Etienne Martin at the Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts. Between 1986 and 1991, Jacobsen and his former student together a sculpture built in a former quarry in Tørskind. The Sculpture Park Tørskind Grusgrav at Egtved in Denmark shows since its opening in 1991, nine sculptures: four out of five of Robert Jacobsen and Jean Clareboudt. From 1991 to 1992 he worked with a scholarship in the former studio of Alexander Calder in Sache , where he produced ten works in the series Iron Passages. Three works have been purchased for the Centre international d'art et du paysage (L'Ile de Vassivière), the other works were in the public space placed among other Montbeliard , Rennes and Nozay. His work is among the minimalism and land art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.