{"id":9601,"date":"2011-07-18T18:20:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T16:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/?p=9601"},"modified":"2011-07-18T18:20:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T16:20:57","slug":"isabelle-cornaro-du-proche-et-du-lointain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/2011\/07\/family\/isabelle-cornaro-du-proche-et-du-lointain\/","title":{"rendered":"ISABELLE CORNARO : Du Proche et du Lointain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isabelle Cornaro, a French, Paris-based artist, seems to be all over the contemporary art world these days. Having recently completed the prestigious ISCP residency in New York City and being a part of celebrated exhibitions at Gavin Brown, NYC, BaliceHertling, Paris and the Tate Modern, she just wrapped up the show Du Proche et du Lointain<\/em> at College des Bernardins.<\/p>\n

Isabelle works in a range of media including installation, photography and video. Infatuated with the gathering of objects, she arranges them meticulously in archaeological-like displays. Cornaro questions and reflects upon our relationship to these objects and the value we bestow upon them (commodity fetishism), thus putting into question the value of a work of art.<\/p>\n

Isabelle told us a little more about the objects she collects and presents.<\/p>\n

Where do you find the objects you display in your installations and what makes you decide on exhibiting some over others?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I find items in antique shops and flea markets, like Vanves or Saint Ouen. Some of them are also scraps (pieces gone wrong) from the Sevres Porcelain Manufactory.<\/p>\n

I choose them according to certain categories I take into consideration when analyzing our relationship to objects, like their emotional or financial value. This is why I use coins, jewelry, ceremonial or heavily decorated objects, because the level of ornamentation reflects the value we attribute to objects. Other objects reference the need to produce objects, a representation that forms a language in itself, so there are measurement tools, molds, stamps with images, letters, typography, slides etc.<\/p>\n

Do you have a special story about one of them that you can share?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because these objects did not originally belong to me, I don\u2019t have anecdotes about them, except for the large, yellow vase in Du proche et du Lointain. This was bought for me by my gallerist. I needed a big vase and we all found it horrible at first. But it turned out to work really well in the installation.<\/p>\n

Do you have strong attachments to your personal belongings, any object you fetishize?<\/strong><\/p>\n

To be honest, I give almost no emotional value to objects of mine. I had many that belonged to my family, but deliberately gave these away.<\/p>\n

What kind of object would you give to Kitsun\u00e9?<\/strong><\/p>\n

If I were to give an object, it’s probably a small African-type statuette, one which is commonly known as a Fetish.<\/p>\n

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Du Proche et du Lointain, Exhibition Views, Courtesy of BaliceHertling.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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