Valentin Carron

Collection :

Monographs & Artists’ Books

Editor(s) :

Beatrix RufKatya Garcia-Anton

Author(s) :

Fabrice StrounMichael BracewellOlivier Mosset

Cover type :

Hardcover

Dimensions :

205 x 286 mm

Pages :

64

Pictures :

40 colors

Price :

CHF38 / €25 / £19 / $29

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ISBN :

978-3-905701-53-1

Publication :

January 2007

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Europe U.K.

ISBN :

978-3-905770-50-6

Parution :

January 2007

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ISBN :

978-3-905770-49-0

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January 2007

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Valentin Carron’s 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.).

Alongside several artists such as Andro Wekua, Mai-Thu Perret, and Vidya Gastaldon, Valentin Carron (*1975) marks the emergence of a new artistic scene in Switzerland.

Published with the Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva, and Kunsthalle Zurich.

French edition (ISBN 978-3-905770-50-6) only available by les presses du réel. Limited stock.