Isabelle Cornaro
Isabelle Cornaro investigates the relationship between objects value, and art, through the issues of representation, perceptual experience, and reproduction. Through a practice engaging with diverse media—including painting, sculpture, video, drawing, and installation—she examines the translation of forms and languages, reappropriating, for example, paintings of an old master into a 3D installation, a film into a graphic score, or the vocabulary of Minimalism into a more emotional language. She mines ambiguity by setting up a tension between the analytical, symbolic, lyrical, and anecdotal, addressing how our way of looking constructs the world and its uses.
Isabelle Cornaro (b. 1974, France) lives and works in Paris. In recent years, her work has been exhibited internationally in solo exhibitions at Fondazione Giuliani, curated by Adrienne Drake (Rome, 2024); Today Art Museum, curated by Damien Zhang (Beijing, 2024); Balice Hertling (Paris, 2022 and 2018); Château de Rambouillet (Rambouillet, 2022); Ludwig Museum, curated by Beate Reifenscheid (Koblenz, 2021); Musée de l’Orangerie, curated by Cécile Debray (Paris, 2021); Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, curated by Mouna Mekouar (Paris, 2021), among others.
Her work has also been featured in group shows at MCA Chicago (Chicago, 2024), Frac île-de-France, Les Réserves (Romainville, 2024); CAPC - Musée d’art contemporain (Bordeaux, 2023); Balice Hertling (Paris, 2022 and 2021); Kanal Pompidou (Brussels, 2020); Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2020); Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, 2018); Arsenal Contemporary (New York, 2018); Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2017); Kunstraum (London, 2017); Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris, 2016), among others. In 2021, she was nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize.
The Perennials
curated by Isabelle Cornaro and Daniele BaliceFeb 8 - Mar 8, 2025The exhibition ‘The Perennials’, curated by Isabelle Cornaro and Daniele Balice, explores the intricate relationship between permanence and transformation. This show brings together works by artists who interrogate memory, materiality,...Read moreIsabelle Cornaro & Behjat Sadr
Nov 24, 2022 - Jan 28, 2023Read moreExposition N°120 (maybe)
Oct 15 - Nov 19, 2022Read moreGennariello
part IIJul 30 - Oct 3, 2020Read moreIsabelle Cornaro
Oct 12 - Nov 24, 2018Read moreIsabelle Cornaro
HomonymesOct 23 - Dec 5, 2015Read moreIsabelle Cornaro
Mar 29 - May 11, 2013Read moreIsabelle Cornaro
Mar 20 - May 7, 2010Read moreBerlin-Paris 2010
Un échange de galeriesJan 15 - Mar 6, 2010Read moreGennariello
Mar 12 - Apr 10, 2009Read more
Isabelle Cornaro
2023Softcover, 184 pagesRead more
Publisher: JRP Editions in co-edition with Fondation d'entreprise Pernod Ricard and Fondation Hermès
ISBN: 978-3-03764-573-4
Dimensions: 24 x 29 cmThe Fascination with the Material and the Aversion to it
2023Softcover, 50 pagesRead more
Publisher: Scheidegger and Spiess/ SIK-ISEA
ISBN: 978 3 85881 871 3
Dimensions: 10 x 15 cmA Sort of Commercial Eroticness
2021Softcover, 48 pagesRead more
Publisher: Fondation d'entreprise Ricard
ISBN: 978 2 940656 06 6
Dimensions: 19 x 23 cmThis Morbid Roundrip from Subject to Object (a facsimile)
2014Read moreInside the White Cube Nr. 13: Isabelle Cornaro
2012Softcover, 64 pagesRead more
Publisher: White Cube 2012
ISBN: 978 1 906072 72 8
Dimensions: 23 x 16 cmIsabelle Cornaro
2011HardcoverRead more
Publisher: JRP
ISBN: 978-3-03764- 209-2De l'adresse
2008Softcover, 60 pagesRead more
Publisher: Centre d'art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson
ISBN: 978 90 7697 997 7
Dimensions: 24 x 16 cmBlack Maria
(phenomena overwhelming conscienceless) 2008Softcover, 48 pagesRead more
ISBN: 978 9 076979 55 7
Dimensions: 20 x 25 cmPlinth Arrangements
From collected Exhibition views 2006Softcover, 32 pagesRead more
Publisher: Laboratoire de Création du Palais de Tokyo and Imschoot
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