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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Fabrice Hyber: The Valley

Fabrice Hyber, Paysage de mesures, 2019.

Dec 8, 2022 – Apr 30, 2023
261 Boulevard Raspail, 75014 Paris, France

The artist Fabrice Hyber refers to his work as “the enormous reservoir of the possible.” Hyber, now 61, has been called France’s most Warholian artist; in other words, he’s fiercely conceptual. In 1990, for example, on a playground swing he added two “phallic protuberances on the seat, one hard, one soft.” He called the piece Hyber Swing. In 1995, he installed a vacuuming device in a hair salon, called it Roof-Ceiling, and used it to suction up rubbish. This exhibition is devoted to a different facet of Hyber’s practice—painting—but his free spirit remains unchanged. Of the 60 works on view, 15 were created for the show. —Elena Clavarino

Photo: © Fabrice Hyber/Adagp, Paris, 2022