EVENT DESCRIPTION
MASSIMODECARLO is very pleased to present Bertrand Lavier in Hong Kong, marking the artist’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery, and first in Hong Kong.
The exhibition unfolds in two parts: the first dedicated to colour, the second, to landscape, or geography, both abstract and figurative.
Bertrand Lavier’s practice makes key use of irony and humour: the artist is on a constant, light-hearted, investigation of art itself. The analysis of medium and gesture is explored in the relationship between the pictorial element and object-hood.
ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER
Bertrand Lavier (b. 1949, Châtillon-sur-Seine, France) is a French artist based in Paris and Burgundy. As a seminal figure in the movement towards appropriation art in the 1980s and 1990s, Bertrand Lavier is perhaps best known for his readymades, created by covering everyday industrial objects such as refrigerators, tables, pianos, and furniture with an impasto layer of paint. He appropriates ubiquitous objects and images in order to reposition them as elements in a strategic critique of consumerism, deeply entrenched visual habits, and art institutions. Fiercely critical of the fetishization of the art object, Lavier considers his work only fully realized as an exhibition—as a constellation of works that generate meaning exclusively through their interrelationships.
