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until 26.06. | #4667ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows from the 03th. May 2025 (Opening: 02.05.) the Solo-exhibition “Retinal Rivalry” by the artist Cyprien Gaillard.
Cyprien Gaillard’s new stereoscopic film Retinal Rivalry (2024) invites us on an impressive journey through Germany’s urban space and sheds light on its multi-layered historical and social significance. A decade after the premiere of Nightlife in 2015, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are delighted to present the German premiere of Gaillard’s latest monumental film installation during Gallery Weekend Berlin.
Building on his previous exploration of the sculptural quality of three-dimensional moving images, this work pushes the boundaries of the canvas. Through the targeted use of ultra-modern technology, Gaillard creates an expanded, sharpened and, as it were, moving new view of the world around us. The immersive film installation is complemented by a selection of the artist’s latest sculptures.
Gallery; Michail Pirgelis, Raised Arizona, 2025, © Michail Pirgelis. Photo: Ben Hermanni
About Cyprien Gaillar
Cyprien Gaillard (*1980) works with a variety of media, including film, video, photography, collage, installation and live performance. His extraordinary cosmos gives a new form to phenomena such as civilisational upheaval and geological time. The artist, who lives in Paris and Berlin, explores the ruins of modernity and the intersections between human artefacts, urban geography and psychology. His work encompasses a poetry of entropy that reorganises history to shed new light on the present.
The seductive audiovisual language of Gaillard’s films recalls the aesthetic tradition of 18th and 19th century Romanticism, which sought the sublime in images of ruins, catastrophes and topographical extremes. His films are reminiscent of the aesthetic tradition of 18th and 19th century Romanticism, which sought the sublime in images of ruins, catastrophes and topographical extremes. However, his works can also be read as socio-critical analyses of colonialism, the failed social aspirations of modernist architecture and the fluid nature of capital in the age of tourism and gentrification.
Opening: Friday, 02. May 2025, 6 – 9 pm.
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 03. May – Donnerstag, 26. June 2025
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Title image caption: Cyprien Gaillard, Retinal Rivalry, 2024 (film still). Courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers and Gladstone Gallery
Exhibition Otto Piene – Sprüth Magers Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Galerien Berlin | ART at Berlin
