pierre gerard / visual

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The vocabulary developed in Pierre Gerard's exhibition "Au mauvais endroit, au mauvais moment, où encore" (In the Wrong Place, at the Wrong Time, Where Next) was that of "total installation", that is, of an exhibition conceived in its entirety as a single, vast work.

One noticed, too, how much of the work was drawn from the building's myriad details; from its luminosity, its decrepit walls, its spatial configuration. This site-specificity was perfectly illustrated by two astounding sculptures created from seemingly insignificant elements belonging to the building: a simple radiator, situated on the third floor, and a round window along one of the walls of the top floor. The artist had crowned the radiator with a small shelf made from a metal bar and two clamps, arranging silver foil along its surface. On top of this makeshift construction was placed a rough piece of wood board, flanked by pieces of cut out paper, creating a kind of unusual monument.

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Yoann Van Parys

Translated from French by Molly Stevens.
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