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MONO.KULTUR #24: CYPRIEN GAILLARD

Dear Friends,

we’re extremely pleased to announce our new issue mono.kultur #24, which will be in stores any day now, featuring the French artist Cyprien Gaillard.

Fire extinguishers being launched in romantic landscape settings, the demolition of housing estates, fighting youth gangs in St. Petersburg – these are some of the subjects examined by Cyprien Gaillard. Emerging as one of the most promising talents among a new generation of young artists, Gaillard is concerned with contemporary land- and cityscapes and the effects of architecture and time on our lives. Gaillard celebrates the complexity and the unresolved contradictions of the modern world in a hugely varied body of work, ranging from film to sculpture, from collage to large scale interventions. But underneath always lies a certain awe for the beauty of our flawed environment. His work has been exhibited among others at the MoMA and New Museum in New York, Kunsthalle Basel and the Hayward Gallery in London.

With mono.kultur, Cyprien Gaillard talked about the failure of modernism, land art as a form of vandalism and why Cancún has never been as beautiful as now.

‘In order to make something beautiful you’ve got to destroy it,’ Gaillard told us during the interview, so we took this paradox to heart by leaving the pages of the issue untrimmed, turning it into an object that needs to be damaged in order to be fully enjoyed. Oh, and did we mention that it includes nearly 50 images, many of which stem from the private archives of Gaillard and have never been published before?

mono.kultur #24
Cyprien Gaillard: Dust Lines
“My work starts where and when the archaeologists left off.”

Interview by Elodie Evers and Matthias Sohr
Introduction by Catharina Manchanda
Artwork by Cyprien Gaillard
Design by Bureau Mario Lombardo

English / 48 Pages / 15 x 20 cm / €4


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  1. Society of Contemporary Art Historians | Cyprien Gaillard: Geographical Analogies on Monday, September 6, 2010 at 05:02

    [...] 2009); interviews by Jonathan Griffin in Frieze 130 (2010), Elodie Evers and Matthias Sohr in Mono.kultur 24 (2010), Timothée Chaillou in ETC 85 (2009) and Edoardo Bonaspetti in Mousse 9 (2007). Chaillou [...]