Catégorie: Special Projects

Simon Berger, presented by Bulgari (Île Rousseau)

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(*1976, CH) Morphogenesis, 2022 Glass, silicone, transport wagon, plastic strips 200 × 180 × 80 cm Contemporary glass artist Simon Berger’s unique sculptural language explores the depth of his material through striking and cracking the glass he works on with a hammer. The pane of glass is both the supportive structure of his artwork, as well as the visualization … Continued

Work.Master students of HEAD–Geneva

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Mbaye Diop (*1981, SN), Nicolas Ponce (*1998, CH), Alpha Sy (*1992, SN) and Yul Tomatala (*1993, CH) avec l’intervenante Sonia Kacem (*1985, CH/TN) Rhodos_Azalées, NL, 2022 Stainless steel 500 × 150 cm This collective work created by a group of students of the Work.Master of HEAD – Geneva takes the form of a weather vane. The sculpture is the … Continued

vorstellen.network

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Feuilles Volantes Feuilles Volantes are a single-page paper, printed in risography. In the course of the Biennale, eight pages are being published, at the rate of one page every other week. Those “Flying Leaves” are distributed according to the following designated calendar, in the parks and on the beach, thanks to a cargo-bicycle. The contents of … Continued

Alexander Calder

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(1898-1976, US) Le soleil sur la montagne, 1973 Tôle peinte, collection FMAC With the breadth and richness of his work, the artist renews the way sculpture is being approached and practised in the 20th century. The refined and simple language used is at the service of his ever exuberant imagination, as fertile as a child’s would … Continued

Francesco Vezzoli, presented by Bulgari (île Rousseau)

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(*1971, IT) Portrait of Sophia Loren as the Muse of Antiquity (After Giorgio de Chirico), 2011 Gilt bronze 190 × 60 × 60 cm Draped in the robes of the Greek goddess Ariane, the famous Italian actress Sophia Loren has been rendered life-size and balanced on a small plinth, surveying the world around her. Gathered in her arms are … Continued

ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne

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Le Cours de l’eau, 2020 Larch wood 360 × 200 × 7800 cm No doubt you have already walked, or dreamt of walking, along a Bisse in Canton Valais. A Bisse is a historical irrigation channel, many of which run through the idyllic Alpine landscape. Perhaps it was this romantic notion that inspired the National Exhibition of 1896 to recreate … Continued

Tomo Savić-Gecan

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(*1967, CR-NL) Untitled, 2020 Mixed media Variable dimensions Every night during the Sculpture Garden Biennial, the intensity of the street lighting at the gate of the Parc des Eaux-Vives is modified according to the comings and goings of visitors at MAMCO during the day. This work was realised within the Croatian Presidency of the Council of … Continued

Adel Abdessemed

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(*1971, FR) Coup de tête, 2012 Bronze 540 × 348 × 218 cm Zinedine Zidane headbutting Marco Materazzi during the 2006 World Cup final immediately made global headlines. Abdessemed’s sculpture fixes in bronze the moment immediately after contact, as Zidane’s antagonist starts to fall backward. The monument proposed by Abdessemed is paradoxical, insofar as it exalts a moment of … Continued