Vincent Ganivet

This is an artist that we looked at on Tuesday in class, his name is Vincent Ganivet. He was actually involed in the Nuit Blanche art celebration night in Paris at the beginning of this month.

A little about him : 

Vincent Ganivet creates works from raw materials, from everyday objects and phenomena diverted from their initial function: the domestic water damage becomes a fountain, a firecracker giving brith to a mural painting... Just as in a magic trick, the objects reveal their secret lives: the banal becomes beautiful and the accidental poetic. A 2003 graduate of the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, Vincent Ganivet regularly exhibits his monumental works in France, in the Modules at Palais de Tokyo in 2007 and 2009 amongst other places, and abroad. His work recently entered the collections of the Fnac as well as the Frac Ile-de-France and Frac Poitou-Charentes. With the Palais de Tokyo’s support, he notably participated in the last edition of “Platform”, an artistic event of great scope at Seoul.

This is definitely an artist we could you as a centre or outside piece. Look at the photo below which shows how it has been incorporated into an exhibition with other works. 

I also really like this sculpture of an igloo...