Oscar Tuazon solo in Zürich: a home, after a home, after a home…

 

In 2009 Oscar Tuazon’s home in Paris was partially modified by some structures made by the artist himself, especially the studio living room. With regards to his research, Tuazon refers to a house in the wood built some years before with his brother, without any project or plan and using only found materials. His apartment, like the house in the wood and the sculptures from that same period appear to be actually full of energy acting as a display of power. Power of the fabrication and of the assembly, generated by the tension between structures, somehow reminding to works of Minimal Art and rough materials: concrete, wood and steel. Now, five years later, for his second solo show at the Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zürich we found the very same elements, that is an idea of house, the wood, the concrete, the steel. This time however, the display of power is just a demonstration of force, without any energy or passion.

 

Oscar Tuazon bought a property in the wood two years ago, he started
to build a house, the road to reach it, installed the power… let’s hope for
the passion to come back.

February 4, 2014