Philippe Decrauzat

Philippe Decrauzat revisits the history of 20th century abstractionism through the medium of his canvasses, murals, sculptures, films and installations. He claims, however, a critical distancing from that legacy, and, as well, from the so-called autonomy of abstraction, supposed, as it is, to set it apart from other disciplines. This leads him to initiate an encrypted exploration which unobtrusively draws its inspiration from the very sources of our popular visual culture, as well as from the vocabulary of abstract art forms in order to create novel images. Each of these sources is consciously deconstructed to reveal a new point of view, or, perhaps, an external interference that will affect the reception of the image by the viewer.

Decrauzat is co-founder of the independent space CIRCUIT and professor at Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL). In the past few years, he had solo exhibitions at Le Magasin, Grenoble, FR, Centre d’Édition Contemporaine, Geneva, CH, House of Art, Ceské Budejovice, CZ, Le Plateau/Frac Ile- de-France, Paris, FR, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, CH, HausKonstruktiv, Zurich, CH, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, FR; Secession, Wien, AT, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH or Swiss institute, New York, US among others. He has also been included in important group shows such as “Dynamo” at the Grand Palais, Paris, FR and “Abstract Generation: Now in Print” at MoMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York, US. 

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