Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Netherlands
22 February - 5 April 2009
The first major solo exhibition in the Netherlands of the emerging French artist Cyprien Gaillard.
The exhibition 'Beton Belvedere' presents an overview of Gaillard's work of the past few years, revealing his unique vision of our contemporary landscape.
Fascinated by contemporary ruins and concerned by the rapid destruction of much modernist architecture across Europe, Gaillard explores notions of state vandalism, gentrification and the picturesque.
This exhibition, which follows hot on the heels of his solo exhibitions at The Hayward Gallery (London) and the Fridericianium (Kassel) is accompanied by an ambitious project in public space.
Parallel to the show within Stroom's gallery, Gaillard will excavate a World War II bunker currently buried in a hill overlooking the dunes and beach of Scheveningen.
The artist sees this submerged bunker as a sculptural readymade, which with the help of large-scale earth-moving equipment and volunteers gathered by the Atlantikwall Museum, he will dig out to reveal in all its brutalist glory.
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