Bertrand Lavier
Bertrand Lavier is an ‘augmenter’, to borrow the term from Raymond Hains, who borrowed it from Roger Caillois. Since 1980, when he first covered a portable radio in paint so as to imitate the object itself (Solid State), Bertrand Lavier has been representing all kinds of objects by painting directly onto them. This extreme squeezing together of the model and its representation makes it impossible to distinguish the one from the other. At once the same and another, aesthetic illusion only exists at a proper distance.
For his new “chantier”...Read more
For his new “chantier”...Read more