TATIANA TROUVÉ
KÖLN SKULPTUR #7

SKULPTURENPARK KÖLN, COLOGNE, GERMANY
5 MAY 2013 – 25 MAY 2015

Tatiana Trouvé's multi-part sculpture plays with viewer’s expectations, when what at first appears to be concrete actually turns out to be a surrealist treatment of cardboard, empty boxes folded into sculptural configurations. Trouvé then added shoes cast in bronze to these solidified forms, suggesting the absence of a figure. The installation of the four-part work on a large plinth reinforces this feeling of isolation.
© Tatiana Trouvé, Refolding, 2012, Stiftung Skulpturenpark Köln, 2022

© Images Veith Landwehr, bildpark.net

FEATURED ARTIST

TATIANA TROUVÉ
Tatiana Trouvé (b. 1969 in Cosenza, Italy) lives and works in Paris, France. She has developed a vast and ambitious body of work in which drawing and sculpture are interwoven in permanent two-way movements. Her work in three-dimensional space proceeds from an invention of locations to be (re)occupied, while her essentially two-dimensional graphic production gives rise to fragmentary arrangements of architectural, landscape, and furniture elements that are reminiscent of the mechanisms of dream work. The artist weaves a “memory art”, based not on techniques of memorisation, as in Antiquity or the Renaissance, but rather on playing with form...
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