Absalon

Virtual Tour: Absalon’Cellule No. 1. TATE gallery

Fabrice Gygi et Absalon ont opté tous deux pour une farouche indépendance. Leurs démarches artistiques sont résolument singulières, résolument différentes…

The Israeli artist Absalon, who died in 1993 at the age of 28, produced an oeuvre of extraordinary complexity and unusual uniformity during his short life. Now for the first time, the KW Institute for Contemporary Art will show an extensive solo exhibition of works by this impressive artist. In his pieces, Absalon created spaces in a systematic manner, using unconventional arrangements and principles of selection and classification which challenge traditional concepts of use and function. In his words, “nothing forces us to make a chair look like a chair.”