Sylvie Fleury
Subtitle: Bedroom Ensemble II
Publisher: MAMCO Geneva
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
ISBN-13: 9781942884880
Description: This installation of Sylvie Fleury consists of household furnishings in where every piece of furniture is covered with fake fur, a fabric common in Fleury's work. But Fleury's Bedroom Ensemble II also pays homage to an artist who similarly raised the pedestrianism of trivial objects to the level of monumental sculpture. In 1963, Claes Oldenburg recreated bedrooms under this same title, distorting their perspectives to enhance the effect of depth and create a disconnection with reality. With her own vocabulary of textures and colors, Fleury pushes Oldenburg's proposition to its limits. This book is the first comprehensive study devoted to this work and to the relationships between this installation and the other works of the artist belonging to the collection of the museum.