Installation view of the exhibition "Yves Scherer: Candids" at Kunsthaus Grenchen in Grenchen, Switzerland.
Photo: Courtesy of the artist
Next Big Thing: Yves Scherer
Yves Scherer. Photo: Nik Dinevski, Courtesy of the artist
Swiss-born, New York artist Yves Scherer confronts familiar themes—love, desire, the meaning of life—in a sweeping variety of mediums. Working primarily in figurative sculptures, he produces traditional works with decidedly edgy subjects. Case in point: Emma Watson as the Little Mermaid, a statement on our culture’s fascination with celebrity. No matter the muse, his most recent pieces, displayed in early 2022 at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in New York, have a more romantic tone. Scherer is adept at forcing the viewer to pause and reflect. “It always comes from personal experience and from my personal life.”
Tools of the trade: Conceptualized using everything from iPhone photos to high-tech computer software, the works are made from 3D-printed aluminum, then presented in installations alongside lenticular photographs, portraits, or mixed-media works.
Yves Scherer, Laetitia, 2021. Photo: Kyle Knodell, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Yves Scherer, What if Yves made applejuice, (2021). Photo: Kyle Knodell, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Eva Presenhuber
“Yves’s work linking online and offline, virtual and real, is seen to carry a formal precision and sensuous quality”
Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte
Up next: After a presentation with M. LeBlanc at NADA in Miami, Scherer will have a solo show at the Chicago gallery in the spring.
Yves Scherer, Untitled (Camila), (2022). Photo: Kyle Knodell, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Eva Presenhuber
A version of this article first appeared in print in our 2022 Winter Issue under the headline “Next Big Things.” Subscribe to the magazine.
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Cover: Installation view of the exhibition "Yves Scherer: Candids" at Kunsthaus Grenchen in Grenchen, Switzerland.
Photo: Courtesy of the artist
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