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equipment, decided to fully unearth it. In doing so, he critiqued the way cities are made today, which involves burying obsolete architecture under new layers of urban development. The unearthing process was also seen as a form of negative sculpture. This work, presented as a video at the FIAC in Paris, won him the Marcel
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Nightlife (2015) is a 14-minute, 56-second 3D projection with sound. It features
Auguste Rodin's The Thinker (damaged during a 1970 attack in Cleveland), plants shaken by the wind in Los Angeles and Cleveland (including the surviving oak from the four given to Jesse Owens for each of his gold medals
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Recovery of Discovery (2011) is a pyramid-shaped sculpture made from 72,000 beer bottles imported from Turkey. The work criticizes the barbaric act of tourist colonialism by extracting architectural elements from their original sites for display in museums. This installation is participatory and
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Picturesque series (2007) questions the representation of nature through the notion of the "picturesque," meaning "that which deserves to be painted." He emphasizes the original picturesque quality of 18th- and 19th-century landscape paintings by erasing any narrative elements with white
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Pruitt-Igoe Falls (2009) is a video referencing the eponymous 1950s public housing complex in St. Louis, USA. Quickly deteriorating, its demolition was scheduled 18 years later. The approximately six-minute film features two static shots: one of a building demolition at night in
Glasgow's Sighthill
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Analogies (2006–2013) is an archaeological investigation from his practice of "present-day archaeology." This work is an exhibition of 900 Polaroids taken by the artist around the world, cataloged and grouped in sets of nine, then displayed as relics. In this work, Gaillard juxtaposes,
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His work humorously explores the traces humanity leaves on nature, oscillating between minimalism, vandalism, romanticism, and land art. His body of work is highly varied, ranging from sculpture to painting, engraving to photography, and including video, performance, and public space interventions.
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Remnants of Fictive Wars The series Real Remnants of Fictive Wars (2003–2008), consisting of photographs and videos, is a minimalist gesture that highlights nature's beauty through the vaporous artificial cloud of fire extinguishers, while also vandalizing it. One video captures images near
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In 2009, during an urban renovation in the
Netherlands, a World War II bunker buried on a hill overlooking the beach in Scheveningen was rediscovered. On this site, set to become a new housing development, Gaillard, with the help of the Atlantikwall Scheveningen Museum Foundation and excavation
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Gaillard's modus operandi transgresses moral and legal rules. He is notably influenced by the notion of entropy (the idea of disorder, and the transformative and destructive power of nature's forces) developed by land artist Robert Smithson, fueling his fascination with ruins. His work
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In the series
Believe in the Age of Disbelief (2005), a modern residential tower stands in the middle of a 17th-century Dutch landscape engraving. Like the ruinist painter Hubert Robert in his time, Gaillard transforms modern architecture into a ruin to highlight it, following Denis Diderot's
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Field of Rest (2012) is a series of Polaroids framed with multi-layered beveled mats, depicting entropic landscapes, sculptures, or buildings damaged by time and human intervention. In the same vein as Geographical Analogies, this series references contemporary society's production of ruins.
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neighborhood and the other of Niagara Falls illuminated at night. By juxtaposing these images, Gaillard draws an analogy between the power and beauty of a natural waterfall presented as a spectacle and the collapse of architecture, also illuminated and turned into a spectacle.
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at the 1936 Berlin Olympics), and fireworks in Berlin. The soundtrack was created from samples of two versions of the same song by Alton Ellis: Blackman's World (1969) and Black Man's Pride (1971), where the refrain shifts from "I was born a loser" to "I was born a winner."
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In 2015, as part of a public commission, Gaillard created an etching for the Louvre's Chalcography titled Underground Resistance, Underground Renewal.
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focuses on the remnants of modern architecture, often depicted as being overtaken by nature. Frequently, Gaillard describes his work as "vandalism."
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2010: Cyprien Gaillard, Mario Garcia Torres, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington. Museum fĂĽr Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main.
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Cyprien Gaillard posed for fashion photographer Terry Richardson for the fall/winter 2010 collection of the New York brand Supreme.
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2009: Sedimented Landscapes, Laboratorio 987, MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León.
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2019: Venice Biennale, two installations (Ocean II Ocean, L'Ange du foyer (Vierte Fassung)).
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Since 2013, Cyprien Gaillard has been in a relationship with British model Lily Donaldson.
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2015: La Vie Moderne, 13th Biennale de Lyon, Museum of Contemporary Art of Lyon.
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for example, ancient Mexican ruins with public housing projects in the Bronx.
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principle: "You have to ruin a palace to make it an object of interest."
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2008: Glasgow 2014, curated by Tom Morton, Hayward Gallery, London.
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2011: Preis der Nationalgalerie fĂĽr junge Kunst, Berlin.
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2006: Individual Creation Grant, DRAC ĂŽle-de-France.
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