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Objects are at the core of the art of Mathieu Mercier (*1970, France). Fascinated by the utopian modernist project of Total Art which seeks to integrate art to our everyday life, and the opposite Duchampian gesture of Ready-Made which aims at transposing a common object into art, Mathieu Mercier redefines the position of the objects (often common household and…
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In art, it’s important to have two things: Curiosity and Ambition.Loris Gréaud (*1979) has both, and he lives them up splendidly. His child-like obsession with objects and knowledge leads him to a desire to fuse different disciplines and practices in a manner that is characterized as “both futuristic and utopian”. A candy without taste, a…
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Despite his emphasis that it’s not his intention to shock or offend the public, Andres Serrano’s work is often proved to be far more provocative than he ever intended. In this interview, we talk about his photography series “Holy Works”, as well as his aesthetics and his religion.
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Taking sculpture as the focus of her artistic research, French Artist Delphine Coindet engages herself in a non-ceasing reinvention of contemporary sculpture. In the interview, Delphine Coindet shared with us the notions of reality and representation in contemporary sculpture and her interests in natural primary elements as a counterpart of the humankind in the hierarchy of classification of things.
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The Spanish artist, Dora García (*1965, Valladolid), employs for one of her core artistic strategies the disruption of the real and of the conventions that determine both the traditional exhibition of art and some of our everyday behaviours. By questioning the public’s expectations, she re-examines the parameters that define the nature of the artistic experience.
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Peintre et sculpteur, l’un des caractères de l’œuvre de Damien Cabanes tient au fait que l’artiste intègre dans une même démarche le geste du peintre et celui du sculpteur, renvoyant les deux techniques face à face.
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French artist Guillaume Leblon (*1971) creates site-specific installations, sculptures, videos and works on paper which transform our perception of the space and its function. Through a sort of staged presentation of his work, he charges his objects with metaphorical meanings, introducing a certain uneasiness that affects and stimulates our perception.
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One of the most important young artists emerged in the international art scene since the last decade, Mircea Cantor (*1977, Romania) is best known for his use of video and mixed media installations to address the notions of displacement, uncertainty, fragility of convictions and uneasy confrontation of ideologies.
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French artistSamuel Rousseau produces art works full of poetry that hijack objects of everyday life and inject them with a healthy dose of aesthetics. Comparing artists to an urban shaman, everything he touches is transformed into the most extraordinary thing in the most ordinary places.
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For many years, the work of the Belgian artist Angel Vergara (*1958, Mieres, Spain) has used different media such as drawing, video, installation and performance, allowing him to explore and broaden the limitations of painting both from an aesthetic and socio-political perspective. His more recent works make use of film and video and it is…
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