León Ferrari was born in Buenos Aires in 1920, and though his father was a painter, he became an engineer. Yet after the day’s work was done, or during idle hours, Ferrari would sit down with a pencil and draw. In 1952, he moved his family to Italy, where there was better medical care for one of his children, who had tuberculosis. Ferrari began working on ceramic sculptures, a response to the violence of the times, especially the Vietnam War. A fervent atheist, he held Christianity responsible for much of the world’s turbulence and division. In 1965, Ferrari famously placed a life-size figure of the crucified Christ on the cross shape of an American aerial bomber: he titled it Western and Christian Civilization. Ferrari died in 2013. This is the first French exhibition of the radical artist’s work. —Elena Clavarino