Cyprien Gaillard

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Cyprien Gaillard (* 1980 in Paris ) is an artist currently living in Berlin .

Until 2005 he attended the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne in Switzerland . Gaillard uses different artistic media such as film, video, photography, sculpture and performance.

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Dunepark by Cyprien Gaillard

Most of Gaillard's works are created outdoors, in special places, which is why he is often referred to as a land or field artist . However, Gaillard does not want to be seen as a romanticist representative of this genre, since his work is not about the beauty of landscapes, buildings, etc. Among other things, he deals with the “relationship between architecture and nature as well as the unequal appreciation of historical and modern buildings.” The latter is particularly evident in his Parc aux ruines project . His idea is to build sculptures and the like out of the rubble of demolished buildings in different places around the world. His La grande allée du Château de Oiron, for example, consists of the remains of a residential tower in Issy-les-Moulineaux and the obelisk Cenotaph to 12 Riverford Road, Pollokshaw, Glasgow 2008, made of parts of former Glasgow building complexes. He also photographed these for his series Working in a State of Emergency . Above all, dealing with architectural heritage, as in the case of Glasgow with the failed social housing projects of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the utopian ideals associated with them at the time, seem to have been important to him in these projects. Gaillard is also fascinated by the demolition of buildings and the modernist architecture of the post-war period. Gaillard is often attested to having an "archaeological view [...] of nature and architecture", which manifests itself in his photo series Geographical Analogies (2006 to 2010) and Fields of Rest .

Gaillard is close friends with the French musician Koudlam , with whom he has already given performances and for whose albums he designed the covers .

Sculptures and installations

  • 2007: Homes & Graves & Gardens # 1
  • 2007: Homes & Graves & Gardens # 2
  • 2008: La grande allée du Château de Oiron
  • 2008: The Arena and the Wasteland (in the Sculpture Park Berlin-Zentrum)
  • 2008: Le canard de Beaugrenelle (in Neue Nationalgalerie , Berlin)
  • 2008: Cenotaph to 12 Riverford Road, Pollokshaw, Glasgow 2008
  • 2009: Dunepark (in Scheveningen )

Photo series

  • 2005: Belief in the Age of Disbelief ( etchings )
  • 2006: Geographical Analogies
  • 2007: Color Like No Other
  • 2007: Working in a State of Emergency
  • 2008: Cairns
  • 2008: Field of Rest
  • 2008: The New Picturesque

Movies

  • 2003/2004: Real Remnants of Fictive Wars I - V
  • 2007: The Lake Arches
  • 2007: Desniansky Raion
  • 2007: Color Like No Other
  • 2008: Crazy Horse
  • 2009: Pruitt-Igoe Falls
  • 2009: Cities of Gold and Mirrors
  • 2015: Nightlife

bibliography

  • 2010: Cyprien Gaillard: Geographical Analogies (book for the photo series), JRP Ringier, June 2010.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2004: It's Just Me and My Brother , Nuit d'Encre, Paris
  • 2005: One Shot By , Galerie Nuke, Paris
  • 2006: The Lake Arches , Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
  • 2007: Desniansky Raion , Bugada & Cargnel (Cosmic Gallery), Paris
  • 2007: Pentagone , L'Atelier du Jeu de Paume, Paris
  • 2007: Art Unlimited, Art Basel , Basel, with Bugada & Cargnel (Cosmic Galerie), Paris and Art & Public, Geneva
  • 2007: Homes & Graves & Gardens , Center International d'Art et du Paysage (International Center of Art and Landscape), île de Vassivière (curated by Chiara Parisi )
  • 2007: Real Remnants of Fictive Wars V , Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie, Besançon as part of the exhibition La Mélancolie dans les ruines
  • 2008: Real Remnants of Fictive Wars I , Center d'art Les Eglises, Chelles
  • 2008: Le canard de Beaugrenelle , Center d'art contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge
  • 2008: Glasgow 2014 , Hayward Gallery Project Space, London (curated by Tom Morton )
  • 2008: Museum Complex of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena
  • 2009: Pruitt-Igoe Falls , Media Test Wall, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
  • 2009: Sprüth Magers , Berlin
  • 2009: Sedimented Landscapes , Laboratorio 987, MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
  • 2009: Cities of Gold and Mirrors , Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
  • 2009: Pruitt-Igoes Falls , Kunsthalle Fridericianum , Kassel
  • 2009: Beton Belvedere , Stroom Den Haag
  • 2009: FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
  • 2010: Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio
  • 2010: Obstacle to Renewal , Kunsthalle Basel
  • 2010: The Berlin Archive 2009-10 , 032c workshop, Berlin
  • 2010: MCA 13, Cyprien Gaillard , Malta Contemporary Art, Valletta
  • 2010: Cyprien Gaillard , Museum of Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt am Main
  • 2010: Cyprien Gaillard, Mario Garcia Torres , Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
  • 2011: Bugada & Cargnel, Paris
  • 2011: Cyprien Gaillard. The Recovery of Discovery , KunstWerke , Berlin
  • 2015: Cyprien Gaillard. Where Nature runs Riot , Sprüth Magers Galerie , Berlin
  • 2018 Cyprien Gaillard. Roots Canal, Museum Tinguely, Basel

Group exhibitions (selection)

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cyprien Gaillard . Sprueth Magers
  2. ↑ What to do Blow it up? . In: Spex , # 328, pp. 77 ff .; Interview with Cyprien Gaillard by Max Dax and Anne Waak
  3. ^ Cyprien Gaillard . architecture protocol
  4. ^ Cyprien Gaillard . bugadacargnel.com
  5. ^ FAZ of September 8, 2010, p. 32: Hausen auf Ruins
  6. ^ Cyprien Gaillard . bugadacargnel.com
  7. ^ Announcement on the exhibition , accessed on September 2, 2014.
  8. ↑ It was dark, the moon shone brightly in FAZ from February 2, 2016, page 12
  9. ↑ Press release No. 5 (PDF; 291 kB) In: National Gallery Prize for Young Art . September 28, 2011. Accessed on September 30, 2011: "Cyprien Gaillard wins the National Gallery Prize for Young Art 2011"
personal data
SURNAME Gaillard, Cyprien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris