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Cyprien Gaillard
Artist's Name: Cyprien Gaillard
Preferred medium: video / film
birth year: 1980
Nationality: FR
City: Paris

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Between vandalism and minimal aesthetics, romanticism and Land Art, the work of Cyprien Gaillard questions man's traces in nature in an iconoclastic way. Whether he commissions a traditional landscape painter to paint colourful views of housing projects in Swiss suburbs, surrounded by their luxurious natural environment (Swiss Ruins, 2005), or introduces the image of a distinct tower-block into a Dutch landscape etching from the 17th Century, hence transforming the naturalist visions of Rembrandt, Anthony Waterloo and Jan Hackaert into building lots (Belief in the Age of Disbelief, 2005), Cyprien Gaillard represents contemporary architecture as a modern ruin on the verge of being taken over by nature, just like French ruiniste painter Hubert Robert did with the Louvre in the 18th Century, thus perfectly illustrating Denis Diderot's quote: 'One must ruin a palace to make it an object of interest.' Like Robert Smithson, Cyprien Gaillard's work deals with the notion of entropy, a movement of transformation irreversibly aiming towards chaos. In the short-lived Land Art works of the series Real Remnants of Fictive Wars, he activates industrial fire extinguishers in carefully chosen landscapes (amongst which Smithson's iconic Spiral Jetty), releasing a thick white powder that creates a vaporous cloud as well as a veiled threat. (Cosmic Galerie, Paris)

important exhibitions from Cyprien Gaillard

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Cyprien Gaillard. The Recovery of Discovery KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin DE 27.03.2011
54. Biennale Venedig 2011: Ausstellungen Biennale Venedig Venedig IT 04.06.2011
Cyprien Gaillard: Pruitt-Igoe Falls MIT List Visual Arts Center Cambridge US 14.12.2009
Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst 2011 Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin Berlin DE 09.09.2011
Cyprien Gaillard : PRUITT-IGOE FALLS Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel DE 17.01.2009
Directions: Cyprien Gaillard and Mario Garcia Torres Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington US 11.11.2010
Cyprien Gaillard - Obstacles to Renewal Kunsthalle Basel Basel CH 27.03.2010
Cyprien Gaillard MMK Zollamt Frankfurt DE 03.09.2010
Cyprien Gaillard - Neon Indian daadgalerie Berlin DE 17.07.2011
The World Belongs to You Punta della Dogana Venedig IT 02.06.2011

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Galleries representing
Cyprien Gaillard:

Bugada & Cargnel Cosmic Galerie
Laura Bartlett Gallery
Sprüth Magers Berlin