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Valentin Carron -
First monograph on Swiss young sculptor.
Alongside several artists such as Andro Wekua, Mai-Thu Perret, and Vidya Gastaldon, Valentin Carron (born 1977 in Fully, lives and works in Martigny and Geneva), whose work has been shown in the last few years at the Kunsthalle Zürich, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and the Conservera in Murcia, marks the emergence of a new artistic scene in Switzerland. His sculptures mark a renewal of appropriationist discourse: through the re-employment of vernacular forms that are not part of the dominant culture, the artist develops a project confusing genres. Neither authentic nor kitsch, not readymade nor really craft, these objects play with ambiguity (fake wood, fake concrete, fake bronze, etc.) and with an iconography of power and authority (public sculptures or commemorative monuments, traditional forms, etc.).
Edited by Lionel Bovier.
Texts by Katya Garcia-Anton, Mai-Thu Perret, Fabrice Stroun.

Published with the Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva (www.centre.ch).
 
published in 2007
English edition
20,5 x 28,6 cm (hardcover)
64 pages (40 colour ill.)
 
25.00
 
ISBN : 978-3-905701-53-1
EAN : 9783905701531
 
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