Cyprien GAILLARD (born 1980) - Lot 207

Cyprien GAILLARD (born 1980) Park Hill (Glasgow), 2006 Watercolor on paper H_30.5 cm W_37.2 cm (with margins) Provenance outside the EU: this lot is subject to VAT at the reduced rate of 5.5% (hammer price + selling expenses). Cyprien Gaillard is a French artist born in Paris in 1980. He currently lives and works between New York and Berlin. A graduate of the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL), he won the prestigious Prix Marcel-Duchamp in 2010. His protean artistic practice encompasses photography, video, sculpture, painting, performance and interventions in public space. He is particularly interested in the traces left by man in nature and urbanism, exploring themes such as ruin, entropy and collective memory. His works question the relationship between past, present and future, often confronting ancient sites with modern constructions. Notable works include the video Desniansky Raion (2007), which juxtaposes scenes of urban violence with images of demolition, and Pruitt-Igoe Falls (2009), which evokes the fall of an iconic architectural ensemble. He has also created Frankfurter Schacht (2021), a public installation in Frankfurt, and Ocean II Ocean (2019), a meditative video on human and environmental relations. Cyprien Gaillard is represented by Gladstone in New York and Sprüth Magers in Berlin.