Faux Terrain
CAN - Centre d'art Neuchâtel•May 09, 2026 — Jul 05, 2026
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In panoramas — circular, large-scale paintings of the 19th century — or museum dioramas, faux terrain is the name given to the strip of ground placed between the viewer and the painting. Its purpose is to perfect the illusion, to erase the boundary between reality and fiction. Yet, in trying to support the illusion, the faux terrain often reveals it even more; it becomes the breaking point where one becomes aware of the dispositif.
In Cyril Tyrone Hübscher’s exhibition Faux Terrain, the cardboard walls make very little attempt to conceal their material. The sculptures evoke stone formations without claiming their mass; the painted surfaces and cut-outs impose no image. Walls, sculptures, display cases, paintings, frames. There is no hierarchy within this ensemble, where everything participates in a single and shared gesture. And everything seems, in a certain way, “false”, like a stage set – or rather: everything refuses to pass itself off as real.
The garden, the artist’s starting…
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Faux Terrain
CAN - Centre d'art Neuchâtel•May 09, 2026 — Jul 05, 2026
Press Release
In panoramas — circular, large-scale paintings of the 19th century — or museum dioramas, faux terrain is the name given to the strip of ground placed between the viewer and the painting. Its purpose is to perfect the illusion, to erase the boundary between reality and fiction. Yet, in trying to support the illusion, the faux terrain often reveals it even more; it becomes the breaking point where one becomes aware of the dispositif.
In Cyril Tyrone Hübscher’s exhibition Faux Terrain, the cardboard walls make very little attempt to conceal their material. The sculptures evoke stone formations without claiming their mass; the painted surfaces and cut-outs impose no image. Walls, sculptures, display cases, paintings, frames. There is no hierarchy within this ensemble, where everything participates in a single and shared gesture. And everything seems, in a certain way, “false”, like a stage set – or rather: everything refuses to pass itself off as real.
The garden, the artist’s starting…
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