Vincent Ganivet
10 Sep - 09 Oct 2011
VINCENT GANIVET
10 September – 9 October, 2011
Yvon Lambert is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition at the gallery of Vincent Ganivet who attracted attention last year during the Dynasty exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo.
The exhibition opens on Saturday, September 10th from 6pm to 9pm in the presence of the artist, and ends October 9th.
Born in 1976, Vincent Ganivet lives and works on the Ile Saint Denis.
Vincent Ganivet's artistic practice revolves around the absurd and the ephemeral; he creates artworks by repurposing raw materials, everyday objects and phenomena; his concrete sculptures play on details, leaks and expectations.
His cinder blocks structures look like the frozen arches of a cathedral under construction, purposeless; their risky stability gives them a sense of poetry, something unreal, fabulous.
Vincent Ganivet exhibited large structures in Avignon, Paris and Versailles, always exploring new limits and taking more risks while building them. The fact that these structures could collapse at anytime is part of the artist's work.
For this exhibition at the gallery, Vincent Ganivet will present a cinder block sculpture that has first been shown this summer in the rotunda of the Orangery, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe. The sculpture collapsed after 10 days because of subtle ground movements.
The artistic practice of Vincent Ganivet is based on experimenting: he has been working for two months in his studio to find the magic gesture that would allow him to display again his spectacular sculpture: 6 meters high, 5 tons, 350 cinder blocks standing together without joints!
Vincent Ganivet explores everyday overflowing, leaks and waste and uses them within an artistic practice based on the absurd and the ephemeral. Like in a magic trick, objects end up revealing a secret life; the mundane becomes beauty; the accident, poetry. His "Fountains" are part of this ongoing research; he will present them for the first time as sculptures. When off, the fountain looks like a stack of dishes dumped in a sink but, under water pressure, a fragile sculptures appears, again revealing the tension and fragility of the moment.
A catalog with an interview of the artist by Simon Castets will be published for the exhibition.
10 September – 9 October, 2011
Yvon Lambert is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition at the gallery of Vincent Ganivet who attracted attention last year during the Dynasty exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo.
The exhibition opens on Saturday, September 10th from 6pm to 9pm in the presence of the artist, and ends October 9th.
Born in 1976, Vincent Ganivet lives and works on the Ile Saint Denis.
Vincent Ganivet's artistic practice revolves around the absurd and the ephemeral; he creates artworks by repurposing raw materials, everyday objects and phenomena; his concrete sculptures play on details, leaks and expectations.
His cinder blocks structures look like the frozen arches of a cathedral under construction, purposeless; their risky stability gives them a sense of poetry, something unreal, fabulous.
Vincent Ganivet exhibited large structures in Avignon, Paris and Versailles, always exploring new limits and taking more risks while building them. The fact that these structures could collapse at anytime is part of the artist's work.
For this exhibition at the gallery, Vincent Ganivet will present a cinder block sculpture that has first been shown this summer in the rotunda of the Orangery, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe. The sculpture collapsed after 10 days because of subtle ground movements.
The artistic practice of Vincent Ganivet is based on experimenting: he has been working for two months in his studio to find the magic gesture that would allow him to display again his spectacular sculpture: 6 meters high, 5 tons, 350 cinder blocks standing together without joints!
Vincent Ganivet explores everyday overflowing, leaks and waste and uses them within an artistic practice based on the absurd and the ephemeral. Like in a magic trick, objects end up revealing a secret life; the mundane becomes beauty; the accident, poetry. His "Fountains" are part of this ongoing research; he will present them for the first time as sculptures. When off, the fountain looks like a stack of dishes dumped in a sink but, under water pressure, a fragile sculptures appears, again revealing the tension and fragility of the moment.
A catalog with an interview of the artist by Simon Castets will be published for the exhibition.