Fabrice Gygi

Fabrice Gygi , (born with Geneva in 1965) is an artist Suisse.

He teaches at the High school of art and design in Geneva (esba)

Formation

Set of themes of artistic research

Works of Fabrice Gygi obey a precise vocabulary. First of all by the attention paid to materials: painted aluminum, wood, concrete, painted steel, leather. Materials rough and especially industrialists, cold but paradoxically sensual. One wants to touch works which attract by their matter and their grain, but which evoke also the coldness, brutality. Thus, the steel painted beige of the Pylons: the very light grain of painting on steel, this color almost flesh, the smooth and soft aspect… The reasons compose the other element of this vocabulary: the grating, the bar, the pylon which is urban elements, of building site, always treated on a minimalist mode, purified.

The combination of materials and this formal minimalism confers a double functionality and direction on works. For example, the sculpture with variable geometry Caillebotis is conceived starting from a tension between the rigid framework of the aluminum grid and the mobility of the wood bars which can be or not encased. Giant play of address? Or barricades on standby? This kind of tension and ambivalence characterizes the sculptures of Gygi - between softness (aluminum paints Grating, the leather of Y) and brutality (that of the strangeness of the direction), between freedom and control, close friend and public.

This tension, and the critical force of Gygi, is very sensitive in the room where a sculpture and a series of linogravures cohabit. In the sculpture Thorax, stainless attracts, calls the touch, and freezes at the same time. One wants to draw the cord which holds the object suspended above it ground, to handle it, while fearing the effect. Is it about an inoffensive giant bobby pin suspended with a pulley? Or an instrument ready to crush, destroy? An instrument of torture? … On the walls the linogravures (important technique in the work of Gygi) present small drawings to the reasons simple, tender, funny, sometimes ironic, which return to the intimacy of the artist. As for the sculptures, the simplicity of the form combines with an interest affirmed for the technique.

Fabrice Gygi questions the mechanisms of the authority by causing a bitter taste between softness and oppression. It is a question of revealing the authoritative wheels, the tensions between freedom and control, protection and threat. From physical attraction, even erotic, for the sculptures and of the sculptures between them (Y intertwine one of the three Pylons), Gygi makes emerge questions serious about the capacities, on the violence of the human reports/ratios where “each citizen () is not a potential authoritative figure, since its position is always contiguous and permeable with the capacity” (Fabrice Gygi).

Personal exposures (selection)

2007 Gallery Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva
2006 Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm
2005 Kunstmuseum, St Gallen
2005 Gallery of Stadt Esslingen
2001 Coil-Tattoos , Cabinet of the Prints & Mamco, Geneva
2001 Public space , Arnheim, Holland
2001 Gallery Chantal Crousel, Paris
2001 Center of contemporary edition, Geneva
2000 Defense , elac, Lausanne
2000 the Store, CNAC, Grenoble

Collective exposures (selection)

2007 Art in the open air - Môtiers 2007 , Môtiers
2007 Wunder Stanza , curators: Zorro & Bernardo and Sibyl Stoeckli, Building of contemporary art, Vat, Geneva
2006-2007 Eye one Europe, Prints, books & multiples/1960 to Now , Museum off Modern Art, New York
2006 Lifestyle. From Subculture Ti High Fashion , Kunstmuseum St Gallen, St Gallen
2006 1996-2006: 10 years of acquisitions, gifts and legacy , cantonal Museum of the fine arts, Lausanne
2006 Reisen put der Kunst. Stiftung Kunst Heute , Bern Kunstmuseum, Bern
2006 New Collections , Kunsthaus Centers PasquArt, Biel
2005-2006 Talking butt the real world. Contemporary swiss art , Chiba City Museum off Art, Chiba
2005 Schweizer Druckgraphik 1980-2005 , Helmhaus Zurich, Zurich
2005 3 in my memory (with Francis Baudevin, Alexandre Bianchini), Skopia, Geneva
2005 Lesson Zero , Gallery Chantal Crousel, Paris
2005 Encjanté castle , Mamco, Geneva
2005 Sweet Temptations - Dialoge puts der Sammlung Rolf Ricke , St Gallen
2002 Energies of resistance , attitudes, Geneva
2001 Megahertz , attitudes, Geneva
2001 The overexcited body , Art for the world, Palazzo Reale, Milan

Price

2004 Price of the city of Locle
1998 federal Price of the fine arts
1997 federal Price of the fine arts
1996 federal Price of the fine arts
1995 Stock Exchange Lissignol-Knight

Publications

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