Valentin Carron
Dust Mint
10 Jun - 21 Jul 2018
VALENTIN CARRON
Dust Mint
10 June – 21 July 2018
In his sculptures and collages, Valentin Carron (born 1977 in Martigny, Switzerland) imitates traditional handicrafts, lesser known art-works (some of which were meant for the public space), stereotypical forms of modern art, and certain forms of the everyday. By appropriating these objects, he questions originality, authenticity, and identity in the globalized world. His reformulations of traditional handicraft, mainly from his Swiss home, show a characteristic touch of irony: Carron recreates these incarnations of a romantic, pastoral Switzerland with inexpensive industrial materials like polystyrene. In his recent works, he uses the same sense of irony to refer to the contemporary environment of technology and internet.
Valentin Carron will present "DUST MINT", a new 6 meter tall sculpture that will be revealed at the roof top terrace at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zahnradstrasse 21, Zürich.
Dust Mint
10 June – 21 July 2018
In his sculptures and collages, Valentin Carron (born 1977 in Martigny, Switzerland) imitates traditional handicrafts, lesser known art-works (some of which were meant for the public space), stereotypical forms of modern art, and certain forms of the everyday. By appropriating these objects, he questions originality, authenticity, and identity in the globalized world. His reformulations of traditional handicraft, mainly from his Swiss home, show a characteristic touch of irony: Carron recreates these incarnations of a romantic, pastoral Switzerland with inexpensive industrial materials like polystyrene. In his recent works, he uses the same sense of irony to refer to the contemporary environment of technology and internet.
Valentin Carron will present "DUST MINT", a new 6 meter tall sculpture that will be revealed at the roof top terrace at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zahnradstrasse 21, Zürich.