édition: 2020

Timothée Calame

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(*1991, CH) Mobilier/Documentaire #3, 2020 Stainless steel, electrical and lighting gear, Plexiglas, various materials 110 × 130 cm each element The Geneva artist situates his work under the white pavilion, a former station for miniature trains built around 1912. Park visitors use it today as a refuge in rainy weather. Three pieces have been designed for the park, … Continued

Andrea Branzi

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(*1938, IT) Fontana Albero, 1994-2020 Bronze, aluminum, electric pump 150 × 280 × 270 cm A pioneer of Italian radical architecture, Andrea Branzi is a designer, the founder of the collective Archizoom Associati and a co-founder of the Memphis Group. His “tree fountain” presented here, Fontana Albero, is an example of his longstanding inquiry into the relationships between the … 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