Valentin Carron

Valentin Carron (born February 17, 1977 in Martigny ) is a Swiss painter , sculptor and installation artist .

life and work

Carron attended the cantonal arts school (École cantonale d'art du Valais, ECAV) in Sion from 1992 to 1999 and then from 1997 to 2000 the Lausanne arts school ( École cantonale d'art de Lausanne , ECAL). In his, mainly plastic, works, Carron takes traditional symbols, forms of archaeological finds, as well as sculptural works by well-known models such as Alberto Giacometti and shapes them into his own appropriative system of images and symbols.

In 2013 Carron exhibited in the Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Biennale . As the main work, he showed an iron-forged 80-meter-long snake that turns through the rooms, as well as - on the wall surfaces - brass instruments pressed flat and then cast in bronze.

Valentin Carron received the Overbeck Prize for Fine Arts in 2015 .

The artist lives and works in his native Valais, Fully .

Exhibitions

• 2009: Art Basel : Public Art Projects
• 2007: Valentin Carron. Kunsthalle Zurich
• 2006: Valentin Carron. Swiss Institute, New York
• 2005: Solid Objects. Center d'art contemporain Genève , Geneva

literature

• Jörg Becher, Tom Haller: The 50 most important artists in Switzerland. Real time, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-905800-03-6 . P. 106.
• Valentin Carron in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

• Literature by and about Valentin Carron in the catalog of the German National Library
• Murielle Henchoz: Carron, Valentin. In: Sikart
• Valentin Carron on kunstaspekte.de
• Feli Schindler: whiz kid with the temperament of a southerner. In: Tages-Anzeiger from May 4, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.swissinfo.ch
2. ↑ Valentin Carron - Overbeck Prize for Fine Arts of the Charitable 2015 on the website of the Overbeck Society
3. ↑ Overbeck Prize goes to Valentin Carron. In: HL-live. 2nd August 2015
4. ↑ Press text, biography and pictures ( memento of the original from January 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Kunsthalle Zürich, accessed on May 15, 2013.