Yann Sérandour – Luis Adelantado Valencia

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Yann Sérandour

Harpsichord Pieces, 2017. General view. La Criée Center. Rennes, Brittany, France

Letrero [How to train your dog], 2015. Printed cardboard slipcase, painted wood and second hand book. 35 x 29 x 4.8 cm. Edition /8 + 4 A.P.

L’Enseigne, 2015. Pigment print mounted on aluminium. 50 x 75 cm, 52 x 77 x 3.5 cm framing. Edition of 2 (+ 1 A.P.)

Thinking Out-Of-The-Box, 2017. Installation. Strap for dogs, 9 pins, 2 nails. 300 x 240 x 10 cm. gb agency. Paris, France

Dual Truth (detail), 2017. Sound installation, 2 vintage vinyl records, wooden stand, 2 dual recording turntables, 2 channel mixer, 2 auto-amplified speakers. gb agency. Paris, France

Two Dogs, One Stick (detail), 2015-2017. Stack of posters, offset printing on coated paper. 50 x 70 cm. Edition 1 of 1 (+ 1 A.P.). gb agency, Paris, France

Untitled (essay by Daniel Buren for John Knight’s exhibition “Leetsoii”), 2007. Panoramic wallpaper, inkjet on paper. Variable dimensions. Edition /9. Photography Sébastien Agnetti. Courtesy Cneai, Chatou.

Complet, 2007. Neon mounted on Plexiglas. 50 × 80 × 5.5 cm

Inside the White Cube (Expanded Edition), 2008. 18 books, slipcase. 21 × 21 × 21 cm. Edition /5 (+ 2 A.P.). Photo Marc Domage. Courtesy Palais de Tokyo, Paris

World Mirrors Series, 2011. U.V. printings on brushed aluminium. Variable dimensions. Photography Vlado Alonso and Baptiste Coulon. Courtesy LIYH HEAD-Geneva

Swiss Painting, 2005/2008. Acrylic on canvas. 100 × 100 cm. Edition /3. Photography Rebecca Fanuele. Courtesy gb agency, Paris

Appendix to One and Two Chairs, 2006. Color laser print on paper, encyclopedia, slipcase. 19 × 12,5 × 5 cm. Edition /3 (+ 1 A.P.)

I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art, 2005. Neon. 15 × 55 cm. Edition /3 (+ 1 A.P.)

Bio

The work of an historian could be that of filling gaps, giving meaning to a series of events from exhumed documentary sources and constructing a plot, like a novelist, in order tell us a story that really took place. The work of Yann Sérandour is similar to the work of that historian: using artifacts borrowed from his predecessors, potential accidents and chances, he leads investigations and indexes missing pieces, in order to prolong and cast doubt on histories.

The work of Yann Sérandour has often referred to conceptual art of the sixties and seventies, periods of particular interest to him because of their copious diffusion in the form of publications and prints – his favorite material. In his recent work, he turns his attention to other fields and more distant times, strengthening a temporal gap with our contemporaneity.

His work has been exhibited at the Parc Saint Léger in Pougues-les-Eaux, the CNEAI in Chatou, the Fortuny Palace in Venice, the Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and the CCA Wattis in San Francisco, among others. He was recently nominated as a finalist for the Meurice Prize in Paris (2018).

News

The Oak and the Reed. Luis Adelantado Valencia. Spain

Les eaux courantes. Parc Saint Léger. Pougues-les-Eaux. France

Harpsichord Suites for Still Dogs. gb agency. Paris. France

Permit yourself… Arts Santa Mónica. Curator by Moritz Küng. Barcelona. Spain

Du Verbe A La Communication. Carré D’art-Museum of Contemporary Art. Nimes. France

A Figure Four Trap. Luis Adelantado Valencia. Valencia, Spain