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Fabrice Hyber: The Valley

Fabrice Hyber, Paysage de mesures, 2019.

Dec 8, 2022 – Apr 30, 2023
2 Place du Palais-Royal, 75001 Paris, Paris, France

The artist Fabrice Hyber refers to his work as “the enormous reservoir of the possible.” Hyber, now 61, has been called France’s most Warholian artist; in other words, he’s fiercely conceptual. In 1990, for example, on a playground swing he added two “phallic protuberances on the seat, one hard, one soft.” He called the piece Hyber Swing. In 1995, he installed a vacuuming device in a hair salon, called it Roof-Ceiling, and used it to suction up rubbish. This exhibition is devoted to a different facet of Hyber’s practice—painting—but his free spirit remains unchanged. Of the 60 works on view, 15 were created for the show. —Elena Clavarino

Photo: © Fabrice Hyber/Adagp, Paris, 2022