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ARTNEWS 1999, By David Galloway. Few visitors have ever entered this vast warehouse-workshop, where hundreds of small scupltures are arranged with Zen-like precision on row after row of identical tables… Claire Stoullig, curator at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva, believes that his work is at a point it should be displayed… « Barande demands that we enter another world, » she says,  » Where the machinery of imagination is set in motion. This is a rare experience.” The results of his artistic experimentation are impossible to classify in terms of any specific genre. Barande’s works, according to Dereck Pullen, head of sculture conservation at the Tate Gallery, « is uniquely his own.» Those who have viewed his work are unanumous in their praise of its profundity and technical virtuosity… Many of these were temporary works, ensembles of objects found by the sea and documented in photographs. The sheer quantity of this refined body of work, which also includes paintings, drawings, and monotypes on canvas, seems all the more remarkable when viewed in the context of Barande’s life…