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Galerie Hussenot is pleased to present Driving Through the Countryside, the first Paris solo exhibition by Swiss artist Kaspar Müller. The exhibition transforms the gallery into a site for examining how authenticity and artifice collapse into one another within contemporary aesthetic experience.
On the ground floor, four large oil pastel paintings anchor the space. Their origins trace a circuitous path: decorative motifs from commercial toilet paper, reinterpreted through the artist's daughter's kitchen-table drawings, then scaled up into dense accumulations of pigment. These works embody what theorist Hito Steyerl termed "poor images"—degraded copies whose circulation erodes their resolution—yet here they insist on aggressive materiality. At the center, a floor mandala assembled from e-commerce algorithms' suggestions—synthetic fruits, colored sand, decorative pebbles—creates a devotional arrangement fr…
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Galerie Hussenot is pleased to present Driving Through the Countryside, the first Paris solo exhibition by Swiss artist Kaspar Müller. The exhibition transforms the gallery into a site for examining how authenticity and artifice collapse into one another within contemporary aesthetic experience.
On the ground floor, four large oil pastel paintings anchor the space. Their origins trace a circuitous path: decorative motifs from commercial toilet paper, reinterpreted through the artist's daughter's kitchen-table drawings, then scaled up into dense accumulations of pigment. These works embody what theorist Hito Steyerl termed "poor images"—degraded copies whose circulation erodes their resolution—yet here they insist on aggressive materiality. At the center, a floor mandala assembled from e-commerce algorithms' suggestions—synthetic fruits, colored sand, decorative pebbles—creates a devotional arrangement fr…
