MARCH 25 TO APRIL 24, 2022
Galerie 3 is pleased to collaborate for the first time with Frédéric Cordier to present the exhibition Vapeurs (Fumes). Through a skillful play of lines and dots as well as void and filled up spaces, the artist’s linocuts schematize a post-industrial and urban geography where the factory, the mine, the oil platform and the city unfold in narrative universes of suspended time. In addition to this body of work, Cordier presents a series of perforated metal panels that he diverts from their decorative use to generate abstract paintings with geometric patterns. Referring as much to the ornaments of Islamic art as to the binary system of digital technologies, his works are strewn with imperfections that subtly reveal their modes of operation.
More » Frédéric Cordier’s artwork takes the form of linocuts, drawings, wallpapers and paintings on perforated steel. With a marked interest in mass production, his creations mimic the standardization of mechanical and digital processes (mass printing, bitmap, vector drawing, binary system). Contrasting with the mechanisms he re-enacts, the artist’s meticulous and relentless handiwork infuses a captivating presence as well as a dynamic character to the industrial and urban worlds he stages. Born in Montreal in 1985, Frédéric Cordier lives and works in Lausanne and Montreal. He holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in visual arts from the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL). His career includes nearly fifteen solo exhibitions in galleries and artist-run centres in Montreal, Lausanne, Geneva, Morges, Lyon and London. He has also taken part in several group exhibitions at the Musée Jenisch in Vevey (CH), the URDLA in Lyon (FR), the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Yverdon-les-bains (CH), the Atelier Circulaire in Montreal (CA), Regart in Lévis (CA), as well as the MUDAC and the Musée de Pully in Lausanne (CH). He has also participated in events such as the International Symposium of Contemporary Art in Baie-Saint-Paul (CA) and the Festival Images in Vevey (CH). He has been nominated twice for the Swiss Art Awards in 2019 and 2010. He is also the recipient of the Leenaards Foundation Cultural Grant in 2011, the Atelier Vaudois du 700e in 2011 and the Ernest Manganel Prize in 2008. His works are part of the collections of the Musée Jenisch, Roche Art Collections, Galerie Von Bartha, URDLA—Centre international estampe et livre, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gymnase cantonal du Bugnon, Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, Fidelity International and Blue Bridge Collection. Less »
