August 4, 2008

Artforum Critics' Pick: Tatiana Trouvé


I started writing reviews for Critics' Picks on Artforum.com in January 2006. For my 55th review, I chose Tatiana Trouvé's exhibition "4 between 3 and 2" at Espace 315 at the Centre Pompidou (25 June - 29 September, 2008), beginning: A tightly bound presentation of new work by Italian artist Tatiana Trouvé, presented on the occasion of her winning the 2007 Prix Marcel Duchamp, thrusts the fourth, temporal dimension between her three-dimensional sculptures and two-dimensional graphite drawings on paper: On each end of the gallery, black sand pours from a tiny hole in the wall onto the floor, slowly building an iridescent cone... Read on.