Cyprien Gaillard: Dust Lines
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“My work starts when and where the archaeologists left off.”
Fire extinguishers being launched in romantic landscape settings, the demolition of housing estates, fighting youth gangs in St. Petersburg – these are some of the subjects examined by Cyprien Gaillard. Emerging as one of the most promising talents among a new generation of young artists, Gaillard is concerned with contemporary land- and cityscapes and the effects of architecture and time on our lives. Gaillard celebrates the complexity and the unresolved contradictions of the modern world in a hugely varied body of work, ranging from film to sculpture, from collage to large scale interventions. But underneath always lies a certain awe for the beauty of our flawed environment. His work has been exhibited among others at the MoMA and New Museum in New York, Kunsthalle Basel and the Hayward Gallery in London.
With mono.kultur, Cyprien Gaillard talked about the failure of modernism, land art as a form of vandalism and why Cancún has never been as beautiful as now.