Galerie Eva Presenhuber is delighted to announce an online viewing room featuring new sculptures and collages by the Swiss artist Valentin Carron. Our presentation accompanies Carron's exhibition Un Ami Simple, now on view at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Rämistrasse, until December 12.
For this exhibition, Carron presents works from two different series: one involving two copper sculptures and the other, collages. The objects are unique heart-shaped ashtrays. Their title, their usage, and their motif are all clues to potentially autobiographical aspects. Each Vecchio Cuore (Old Heart) shows the asymmetry of loneliness and disappointment in love. The sculptures derive freely from the shape of the large platform built by the artist at the same level for the terrace of the new Swiss Institute building in New York.
The collages are the originals of the panels for Carron's Un Ami Simple exhibition at the Mauvoisin Dam in Valais, Switzerland, this summer. In their Alpine setting, the mule motif evoked the inevitable exploitation of animals that came with industrial development. The silhouettes of the animals, photocopied onto sheets of simple colored paper, cut out and stuck back together in a system of repetitive grids, were also copied on both sides and printed in a beautiful artist's book produced for the occasion.
"The more I progress, the more I cling to my past obsessions." – Valentin Carron

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