A little Montreuil settled in Venice. On the top floor of the Palazzo Grassi, Museum of the Pinault collection, at the end of the course of his exhibition “La vie strange des things” (until January 4, 2026), the plastic artist Tatiana found filled a room of objects which she usually stores in the basement of her workshop in the Parisian suburbs.
Either bronze reproductions of shoes, bags, padlocks, transistors, school bags of schoolboy, key trousseaux and dried flowers. A few weeks ago, they left the workshop for the lagoon. “I don’t miss they, smiles the Franco-Italian artist, born in 1968, I know they will come back. In any case, it is the ABC of my work, my vocabulary. »»
Tatiana found, figure of contemporary art, winner of the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2007, exhibited in 2022 at the Center Pompidou, is used to accumulating all kinds of objects. She looks for some, comes across others by chance. Then in fact casts, which feed his works. Like his series of “necklaces”, fragile creations made up of trinkets found in various cities: Venice, Montevideo, Buenos Aires … Other objects inspire sculptures, large drawings. “I do not make any difference between the mediums, he assures, nor between the ladders of the works. But everything is done here. By hand. »»
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