Arlequin, ceramic, 25 x 30 x 15 cm, 2012

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exhibition view at the University of Art and Design of Geneva, Geneva, June 2012

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4 drawings, indian ink on paper, 60 x 80 cm each, 2012

exhibition view at the University of Art and Design of Geneva, Geneva, June 2012

Untitled, ceramic and mastic , 70×25×25 cm, 2012

Pingouin, ceramic, 40 x 15 x 12 cm, 2012

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4 drawings, indian ink on paper, 60 x 80 cm each, 2012

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Untitled, 170×70×60 cm, 2012
exhibition view at L’OV Neuchatel, september 2012

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exhibition view at L’OV Neuchatel, september 2012

Untitled, ceramic and aluminium, 250 x 90 x 90 cm, 2012 

all images courtesy the artist

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ADRIEN CHEVALLEY is a young Swiss artist whose works interveawe sculptures, wall pieces and floor works with a special flair for ceramic and a notable poetic creativity.

By using everyday materials from the “warehouse”, ADRIEN pokes subtly at questions of ambiguity between the domestic object and the artwork, the studio and the apartment, the gallery and the house. Ceramics in particular correspond to the collective identity, the medium of clay is universal. Additionally his objects relate to human size, embracing their domestic status as things for us.

ADRIEN‘s work is uncanny but, at the same time, attractive and almost grotesque, but as soon as one of these feelings prevails, it is immediately superseded by the others. ADRIEN CHEVALLEY is only a few months out of grad school at the University of Art and Design of Geneva and appears to be balancing between anything goes enthusiasm and the development of a concrete conceptual cosmology.  The effect is that of his projects are held on the verge of cohering — and therein lies its charm.

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