Cyril Zarcone

By constructing his sculptures and installations from mouldings of various copies of decorative and architectural elements (columns, fountain pedestals, rosettes…), Cyril Zarcone examines the way in which shapes, through their industrial reproduction, permeate our visual culture. Issues such as the popularisation and multiplication of models and the standardisation of taste stripped of its origins run throughout his work. Hailing from a working-class background, the artist draws both from this formal heritage and from the craftsmanship it involves. His attention to technique, gestures and tools convey his need to craft and, as such, his works bear the traces of this crafting process. Cyril Zarcone repurposes and assembles, borrows, de-hierarchises and confronts elements: his work fits boldly into the spaces they are presented in and reinterpret them through the use of balance and movement.