Isabelle Cornaro

In this exhibition, the young French artist questions notions of perspective, point of view and positioning. Her artistic references extend beyond the 1960s and the 1970s as she approaches diverse aesthetic movements within western culture through a conceptual point of view - semiological - and a postmodernist look at the medium, the point of view, questions of the style and the reproduction vs the original.

Taking classical painting as a starting point, Isabelle Cornaro builds on the lines of perspective of her installations. From abstraction to representation, she creates sets and systems that constitute new life-size landscapes using objects with ideological value from popular and learned culture. Once integrated into a composition, the familiar objects are endowed with a new sense and a new value. Isabelle Cornaro brings to light the importance of symbolic systems in cultural production and shows how historical and cultural modes of representation influence our perception of the world.

The diversity of the mediums used- drawing, video / movie, installation- is connected to the history and culture of western society. The artist plays with the boundaries of these artistic mediums where the artwork is situated between work on paper, unique and private object and public and anonymous object.

Isabelle Cornaro was born in Paris in 1974 where she lives and works. Award winner of the Price of the Fondation Ricard 2010, she exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, in the Palais of Tokyo, Paris and the Sculpture Center, New York.

Existing works and many new works will be presented in relation with her exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, in 2013. Both exhibitions will be accompanied by a catalogue published by JRP| Ringier. Curator of the exhibition: Yves Aupetitallot

Isabelle Cornaro
Kurator: Yves Aupetitallot