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Albarrán Bourdais Gallery will be holding the first exhibition ever in Madrid devoted to the works of French artist Bertrand Lavier (Châtillon-sur-Seine, France, 1949). Together with Daniel Buren, Christian Boltanski and Annette Messager, Bertrand Lavier is one of the pillars of contemporary art in France.
Since the early 1970s, Lavier has worked within the vein of a critical extension of Marcel Duchamp and the Nouveaux Réalistes. By taking everyday objects, and modifying or hybridizing them, the artist explores the status of art from a position of irony. By eliminating the original context of …