Today Diggers, Tomorrow Dickens
November 9, 2013 — February 1, 2014
New York: 21st Street
Gladstone Gallery is pleased to present our first exhibition with Cyprien Gaillard, Today Diggers, Tomorrow Dickens. For this ambitious and complex presentation, Gaillard has created two complementary bodies of sculptural works that explore notions of regeneration, ruination, and decay, turning his eye to the relationship between evolution and erosion – a thread that weaves through much of his work. Navigating the concept of the altered readymade through an anthropological lens, Gaillard has incorporated processed natural and industrial materials to achieve an equilibrium that reflects the way in which our society simultaneously progresses and reverts in the realm of the bleak.
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About
Cyprien Gaillard (b. 1980, Paris, France) lives and works in Berlin and New York. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at a number of major international institutions, including: OGR Torino, Italy; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada; LUMA Foundation, Arles, France; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Espace Louis Vuitton, Munich; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; MMK Museum für Moderne, Frankfurt; Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland; TANK, Shanghai, China; Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; MoMA PS1, Queens, New York; Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan; Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; and Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland.
