Cocorico paintings, Adel Abdessemed
By: text: Daniel Birnbaum ; editor: Simmy Swinder Voellmy
Contributors: Wilde (Geneve, Switzerland)
Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9783960989097
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Exhibitions; Recycling (Waste, etc.) in art
Other titles: Cocorico; Adel Abdessemed, Cocorico paintings
Description: Each work is an assemblage of strips of recycled metal made by North African craftsmen. Brightly-coloured ribbons cut from toxic waste containers are knitted together or welded with strips from food and drink cans to make unique tapestries, and each one is adorned with a different phrase. These words often take the form of cultural maxims, or are drawn from the realms of music, art history or literature. The Cocorico Paintings tell the story of a struggle between the individual and the industrial at a material level; the struggle of art in a world of mass consumption and globalised markets. Adel Abdessemed - born 1971 in Constantine (Algeria), lives and works in Paris .
Notes: Chiefly illustrated.

Parallel texts in English and French.

On the occasion of an exhibition held at the Wilde, Geneva, September 3 - October 23, 2020.