(*1977, CH)
Dust Mint, 2018
Aluminum, stainless steel, epoxy primer, enamel
640 × 60 × 40 cm
As a subtle observer of cultural signs, Carron ironically underlines the contemporary use of forms that express a nostalgia for a vanishing provincial world. He weaves a rustic vocabulary into the vocabulary of modern art, which has become an international norm. Dust Mint is a column made of apple crates and can be seen as a commentary on abstraction in the 20th century. When so-called avant-garde artists imagined repetitive abstract structures, the wooden apple crates of the European countryside had not yet escaped their agrarian condition. Since then, the use of wooden crates has returned, thanks in part to companies that sell them as shelves. Placed in the park, this work also echoes the agricultural history of this area of Geneva.
With the support of Commune de Cologny
