Corentin Grossman (b. 1980, Metz, FR)
Working in graphite, colored pencil, and airbrush on paper Grossmann renders fantastical, dreamlike landscapes and discrete hybrid objects. Signaling the subconscious, his investigations present connections between disparate spheres of thought. His work has been described in Frog as “exquisite complexity and perverse softness.” In the artist 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.
Cosmic Couple, 2017
Colored pencil, pastel, and graphite on paper
15.75 x 11.75 in
Yeux de vulves, 2018
Ceramic
Installation view at OSMOS Address
From left to right
Verdun, 2017
Graphite and colored pencil on paper
15.75 x 11.75 in
The main gate, 2017
Graphite on paper
15.75 x 11.75 in
Selected Exhibitions
Corentin Grossman
OSMOS Address, New York, NY
November 7 – January 8, 2019
Selected Press
Entering Corentin Grossman’s Chimerical Universe | Cercle, 2023