Thomas Hisrchhorn

Thomas Hirschhorn develops an acute sense of collage mounting assembly and recovery. He uses cardboard, scotch, aluminium sheets and plays on the image of the network by intervening with a worthless material, which has a connotation, however, ecological and misérabiliste.Il already exists a strong tradition of the recovery in the Art in Switzerland as Frank Gehry and Jean Tinguely and Bernard Luginbühl. .
Thomas Hirschhorn appropriates elements used by the excluded, cartons, signs to assert its own message. In fact the work does not lie in the creation of an object or a painting, but in the invention of a method, a way of presenting works or questions. It develops and provides a metaphor for the network with its pipes paper twisted aluminium in particular. This is an original formulation of the report on the subject, artwork, it is no longer so many objects, but texts, which are real documents, directed, offered to the curiosity of the public in a gesture exposure baroque rhetoric.



Hirschhorn is working on the presentation, exhibition, presentation, the specificity of this language, it treats as an instrument rhetoric, as compared to other modes of expression. It can be finding sources and try many parallels: the Dadaist collage, but in this case the tradition of view, or the use of the model in some historical museums, model that can be found in architecture and in the Many artists in recent years. The main source is the practice of various excluded who know perfectly send messages using what they find to do so. A feature of the work Hirschhorn is still very outside in his presentation, he retains a great distance, is not involved personally in an expressionist.

In 2000 he won the Prix Marcel Duchamp "the winner after the jury showed a real maturity and a great sense of responsibility as an artist, and also that his work is a unique and a remarkable inventiveness. "