Valentin Carron : Learning from Martigny / [comisario, Pablo del Val]
In “Learning from Martigny,” Valentin Carron (*1975, lives and works in Martigny, Switzerland), offers a photo-documentation of his surroundings—the sources for some of his works—intertwined with images of his sculptures or paintings. If Carron’s sculptures mark a renewal of appropriation through the re-employment of vernacular forms that are not part of the dominant culture, the artist develops a project confusing genres. Neither authentic nor kitsch, neither readymade nor really craft, his objects play with ambiguity (fake wood, fake concrete, fake bronze, etc.) and with an iconography of power and authority (public sculptures or commemorat...
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| Varying form of title: |
Learning from Martigny |
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| Main author: | Carron, Valentin 1977- | ||
| Other authors: | Val, Pablo del | ||
| ISBN: |
978-84-96898-60-8 (Noir sur noir) 978-3-03764-095-1 (JRP Ringier) |
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| Language: | Spanish |
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| Published: | [Ginebra] : JRP Ringier, [2010?] | ||
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Contiene: "El verdugo: un relato escrito por sí solo" de Nicolas Pages |
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| Exhibitions: |
Exposición "Fibre, fibre, austère, austère" celebrada en La Conservera, Murcia, del 11 de diciembre de 2009 al 28 de febrero de 2010 |
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| CN: | 179912 | ||
| Format: | Artist Book | ||
| Physical description: |
[128] p. : fot. ; 22 cm |
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| Call number: | LAR 191 |
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| Barcode: 65493 | Available on request |
