BERTRAND LAVIER – HIER, OGGI
2018-04-16Bertrand Lavier is renowned in the realm of contemporary art for his reflections on abstract painting and sculpture. Through light-hearted humour and sarcasm Lavier has reworked the notion of the canvas and moreover of the art work in general via juxtapositions and hybridizations, creations that are generated by his thoughts on consumerism and authorship, which are rooted in his first handed experience of the tumultuous riots in Paris in 1968.
Gesture is key in Bertrand Lavier’s oeuvre, where the pictorial element defines the content and the context. The exhibition Hier, Oggi is structured as a retrospective – deliberately incomplete and fragmentary – where the artist has selected a number of works from different periods of career, focusing on the period that goes from 1983 to today. Mirrors and canvases specifically made for the exhibition are shown alongside works from the early eighties.
Opposite – SMEG, 2002
Exhibition runs through to June 23rd, 2018
Massimo De Carlo
Ventura: Via Giovanni Ventura 5
20134 Milan
Italy
