Fabrice Gygi

Known for his postmodernist works of the 80s and 90s, Fabrice Gygi today looks for expressions that formally prevent any interpretation.

Fabrice Gygi’s new series of watercolors develop around the psychological phenomenon of pareidolia, which consists of recognizing in a landscape or a non-figurative work, a known face or a familiar form. To avoid this pitfall, Gygi develops the deconstruction of meaning with a set of five artworks which, by successively adding simple strokes, cause the loss of all possible references, until arriving at a final form “free” of all meaning.

The exhibition brings together six new wooden sculptures which pursue this research, while also freeing themselves, in space, from the question of composition. The tubular structure of each element is reproduced serially and then placed side by side. The sum of the parts thus gives an almost identical whole to each component. Here again, the meaning of the work, through its reproducibility and arrangement, disappears in favor of a form that seems infinitely modular.