Pierre Ardouvin
Born in 1955 in Crest, France. Lives and works in Paris.
Through his artowrks Pierre Ardouvin is patiently building up a poetry of banality. All of his installations and drawings take society as a motif and are tinged with both a good -natured nostalgia and an unmistakable pessimism. The disillusion of daily life is suggested through arrangements of simple objects and the biting connections the French artist draws between them. Behind the pop music Ardouvin likes to employ, we feel our weariness of spectacles and the spectacular beginning to surface.