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ARTIST TALK

CYPRIEN GAILLARD

EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY

1399 JOHNSTON STREET

VANCOUVER, BC

SOUTH BUILDING #301

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 25, 2012 AT 11:30 AM

PRESENTATION HOUSE GALLERY is pleased to present an artist talk
by Paris-born, Berlin-based artist Cyprien Gaillard.

Between iconoclasm and minimal aesthetics, romanticism and Land
Art, the work of Cyprien Gaillard questions man's traces in
nature with an archeological approach to recent history. Through
sculpture, painting, etching, photography, video, performance
and large-scale interventions in public space, Gaillard examines
the relics of our built environment with an entropic view of
destruction as the starting point of renewal.

Gaillard's most recent work Artefact is a film shot on the artist
's iPhone and later transferred to 35mm film. The film traces the
ancient city of Babylon (near the current city of Al-Hillah in
Iraq) cut with a snippet of David Grey's song 'Babylon' as the
score. The work won the 2011 Publikumspreis (people's choice
prize) in Germany's Young Art Prize exhibition at Berlin's
Hamburgerbahnhof.

In The Recovery of Discovery, Gaillard notoriously built a
pyramid out of 72,000 bottles of beer at KW Institute for
Contemporary Art in Berlin and invited visitors to contribute to
the work by drinking it. As Gaillard states:. "The physical
hangover is also an architectural one, from which one has to
recover."

Gaillard was recently awarded the 2010 Prix Marcel Duchamp,
France's most prestigious award for contemporary visual arts.

Cyprien Gaillard's talk is presented in collaboration with Emily
Carr University and with the gracious support of the Consulat
général de France à Vancouver. He is represented by Sprüth
Magers Gallery, Berlin.

For additional press information and/or images please contact
Diane Evans 604 986 1351.

Image credit: Cyprien Gaillard, from the series Geographical
Analogies, 2006-2011, Mixed Media, 65 x 48 x 10cm. Courtesy the
artist and Sprüth Magers Gallery, Berlin.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS     We are grateful for the ongoing support from
our funders: The Canada Council for the Arts, the British
Columbia Arts Council, the Province of British Columbia, the
City of North Vancouver through the North Vancouver Arts Office,
Metro Vancouver and the Yosef Wosk Foundation.

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