Published on January 24, 2024 at 9.17pm / Edited on January 25, 2024 at 02.25am.
In 2018, a giant inflatable sculpture welcomed visitors to Artgenève. Happy (2017), a large black and white cartoon cat, imagined by Mark Leckey, sitting at the top of the escalator leading to the art fair, smiling with all his teeth.
This year gigantism returns to Artgenève and is available in a new section, aptly titled “Made to measure”. At the top right of the escalator, in a space created specifically for this purpose, we find ourselves in front of an enormous “octopus” that shines with a thousand flowers, colors and lights. This is Valkyrie Mumbet (2020), a monumental work by Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos (1971). The warrior goddess hovers and unfolds her long arms and fringes, suspended in this vast black-draped room, surrounded by four other works of respectable size even if they seem modest compared to the imposing Mumbetto. Deposit Together of Mexico (2022), the American Blair Thurman (born 1961) positioned a carriage in front of a landscape of colored canvases; In Autopanorama I, II, III (2023) the French Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (born 1965) proposes an extraterrestrial panorama where familiar and utopian architectures dialogue with benevolent aliens; Ninth life (2022) by the British Oli Epp (born 1994) offers a black, smooth and slightly disturbing slide in the shape of a cat; while the American Paul McCarthy (born 1945) reveals the funny grimaces of a bronze Grumpy dwarf under the name of Grumpy snow white dwarf (2026).
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2024-01-24 20:17:31
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