Cyprien
Gaillard
Cyprien
Gaillard
Gaillard
French, born in 1980
The work of Cyprien Gaillard questions man’s impact on nature and how we confront the passage of time; in particular the process of decline and upheaval in cities.
Born in 1980 in Paris, he studied at the École cantonale d’art in Lausanne and currently resides in Berlin. Fascinated by ruins, he works with different media, including sculpture, painting, photography, video and performance, and makes large-scale interventions in public space, seeking to develop a “new, urban form of Romanticism”. The winner of the 2010 Marcel Duchamp Prize, he takes his inspiration predominantly from abandoned construction sites, creating a confrontation between archaeology and modernity.
The artist’s works in the Pinault Collection were first presented at the Palazzo Grassi at the "Le Monde vous appartient" (“The World Belongs to You”) exhibition in (2011-12).
Born in 1980 in Paris, he studied at the École cantonale d’art in Lausanne and currently resides in Berlin. Fascinated by ruins, he works with different media, including sculpture, painting, photography, video and performance, and makes large-scale interventions in public space, seeking to develop a “new, urban form of Romanticism”. The winner of the 2010 Marcel Duchamp Prize, he takes his inspiration predominantly from abandoned construction sites, creating a confrontation between archaeology and modernity.
The artist’s works in the Pinault Collection were first presented at the Palazzo Grassi at the "Le Monde vous appartient" (“The World Belongs to You”) exhibition in (2011-12).
