Corentin Grossman (b. 1980, Metz, FR)

Corentin Grossmann renders fantastical, dreamlike landscapes and hybrid objects in colored pencil and airbrush on paper, as well as in sculpture. Evoking the subconscious, his investigations often connect disparate realities in inventive ways. Frog magazine has described his practice as possessing “exquisite complexity and perverse softness.” In Grossman’s own words, “if I refer to a local, partial, minuscule reality, it is only to better inscribe it into the interdependent and infinitely complex movements of innumerable elements which are part of our universe. The ambiguity of this proceeding also lies in that thought whose structuring tendency is destined for failure. The lightest and heaviest matters can be addressed simultaneously, with humor; to relate them, without any hierarchy, is a poetry which I like.” In 2018, Grossman was nominated for the Prix Meurice.

Grossman lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.

corentingrossmann.com

Selected Exhibitions

Corentin Grossman

OSMOS Address, New York, NY

November 7 – January 8, 2019

Selected Press

Entering Corentin Grossman’s Chimerical Universe | Cercle, 2023