Sur-mesure
Art Genève / Sur-mesure
A selection of distinctive artworks and large-scale installations presented by galleries and institutions.
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List of artworks:
Paul McCarthy
White Snow Head, 2012 Silicone (flesh), fiberglass, steel 140 × 160 × 185 cm Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
Michal Rovner
Red Field, 2024 Video projection with audio Dimensions variable Courtesy Pace Gallery
Jacques Villeglé
Bas-Meudon, 28 January 1991, 1991 Ripped posters mounted on canvas 280 × 475 cm Courtesy Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois
Cassandre Albert
Le Rocher, 2025 Recycled plastic profiles, metal, wood, reed thatch, and water 360 × 200 × 220 cm Courtesy Ritsch–Fisch Gallery
Jean-Marie Appriou
Solstice, 2024 Bronze, aluminum 218 × 98 × 95 cm Courtesy Eva Presenhuber
Jagoda Buić
Hommage à Pierre Pauli (Flexions), 1970–1971 Installation of six elements; wool, sisal, goat rope, gilded metal wires, gold paper, and steel 350 × 420 × 290 cm Courtesy Fondation Toms Pauli
Edition 2025
FOOD
For Art Genève, curator Nicolas Trembley has selected six videos exploring the theme of food. The relationship between food and contemporary art is rich and multifaceted, with food serving both as a subject and a medium in artistic practices. It often carries symbolic meanings linked to culture, politics, identity, and memory, allowing artists to comment on social issues or use food itself as material.
Six video works are projected in a continuous loop on six individual walls forming a hexagon. The selection offers diverse artistic perspectives, beginning with historical footage by Gordon Matta-Clark documenting FOOD, the restaurant he co-founded in 1971 in New York, which also lends its name to the program. In response, Jasmine Gregory’s 2024 performance, staged in a Zurich grocery store, addresses themes of consumer culture and social inequalities.
Gordon Matta-Clark, FOOD, Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York
The relationship between food and the body can be political, as seen in Paul McCarthy’s 1974 video Heinz Ketchup Sauce or Pilar Albarracín’s Tortilla a la Española from 1999. Finally, cultural constructs and the media’s portrayal of food are humorously addressed in Christopher Williams’ Betty Bossy cooking class or in the philosophical reflections on fat in the new episode of The Restaurant by artists Will Benedict and Steffen Jørgensen. Finally, the giant sculpture of a ladle and a spoon by David Nash completes the installation.
The works on display:
Christopher Williams
Supplement 04, 2004 Video, 332 min. 17 Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, David Zwirner, New York / Paris / London / Hong Kong
Will Benedict and Steffen Jørgensen
The Restaurant (Season 2), 2021-2024 3 épisodes, vidéo, 74 min. Une production du Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève pour la BIM 2021, avec le soutien du FCAC et du FMAC. Collection des Fonds d'art contemporain de la Ville et du canton de Genève (FMAC & FCAC).
Gordon Matta -Clark
FOOD, 1972 43 min, noir et blanc, audio, film 16 mm transféré en vidéo. Caméra et son : Robert Frank, Suzanne Harris, Gordon Matta-Clark, Danny Seymour. Montage : Roger Welch – EAI Mamco, Genève, Electronic Arts Intermix et David Zwirner, New York / Paris / London / Hong Kong
Paul McCarthy
Heinz Ketchup Sauce, 1974 Vidéo monocanal, couleur, 17min30 Courtesy de l’artiste
Pilar Albarracín
Tortilla a la española, 1999 Vidéo, 6 min. 07 Galerie Georges-Philippe et Nathalie Vallois
Jasmine Gregory
One Time Shot, 2024 Video, 5 min. 1 Galerie Karma International
David Nash
Ladle and Spoon, 2018 Bronze, 296 x 166 x 100 cm Galerie Lelong & Co.