Valentin Carron | "Bell", 2013 | (for Parkett 93)

Read a Parkett Text on Valentin Carron
Parkett Vol. 93

Quote from Parkett
“Sculpture lies at the center of the Swiss artist’s work. As Carron has often pointed out, he works according to the strategies of appropriation art. Reinterpreting works of art in materials different from the originals, he grants them new meaning, transferring them into new contexts for another generation.”
Giovanni Carmine, Parkett No. 93, 2013

Additional Quote
“In typical Carron style, the artist here takes the Swiss trope of a bell and deconstructs its national charge by turning it into a contemporary table object. Displaced and decontextualized, the small object-come-sculpture no longer holds the authority of a symbol of Switzerland, instead revealing the complex sentimentalism attached to and mythologies surrounding rural items like these. Cast in bronze with a wooden handle, Bell cleverly explores the weaving of collective identity in a concise compact manner and at the same time acts as an interactive object in its own right.” -Finartmultiple

"Bell", 2013 (for Parkett 93)
Bronze cast, wood,
diameter 6 1/2 x 2 3/4” (16 x 7 cm),
fabricated by Kunstbetrieb AG, Münchenstein, Switzerland.
Ed. 35 / XX, signed and numbered certificate.