Tatiana Trouvé (born 4 August 1968) is an Italian visual artist based in Paris who works in large-scale installations, sculptures, and drawings. Trouvé is the recipient of numerous awards including the Paul Ricard Prize (2001), Marcel Duchamp Prize (2007), ACACIA Prize (2014), and Rosa Schapire Kunstpreis (2019). Trouvé has taught at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris since 2019.

Tatiana Trouvé
Portrait of Tatiana Trouvé by Hélène Pambrun, 2023
Born (1968-08-04) 4 August 1968 (age 55)
Cosenza, Italy
NationalityFrench, Italian
Education

Early life and education edit

Born in Cosenza, Italy,[1] to an Italian mother and a French father, Trouvé spent her early childhood in Italy and her adolescence in Dakar, Senegal,[2] where her father taught architecture.

After studying at the Villa Arson in Nice, France where she graduated in 1989, she spent two years in residence at Atelier 63 in the Netherlands before eventually settling in Paris in 1995.[3][4] Trouvé worked as a guard at the Centre Pompidou.[2]

Work edit

Trouvé produces sculptures, drawings, and installations, many of which incorporate architectural interventions.[5] One of her most well known pieces is the project titled Bureau d’Activités Implicites (or Bureau of Implicit Activities) that was produced over the course of ten years from 1997. This piece that took the form of an improvised office environment served as a repository and archive of work that Trouvé was making, or planning to make, as a then-unknown artist.[4] Through the creation of architectural modules, Trouvé constructed an administrative space to house her creative efforts as well as her clerical attempts to adherence to the red-tape of the art world.[6] The administrative module is the most significant of this work, because it regroups all the documents that attest to her life in social and administrative terms (CV, grant applications, cover letters, job applications...)[7]

Since 2005, Trouvé has been constructing maquettes or doll houses which emerge from the universe of "implicit activities", which comprise her series Polders.[8] These maquettes take the form of deserted workplaces, recording studios or unoccupied desks. They represent that which has always been there, waiting to be recuperated or reorganised.[9] Placed on the ground or fixed to the wall, these items adapt themselves to the physical exhibition space, and at the same time they suggest the existence of a different space or environment. These Polders look to occupy the space in order to parasite it. "It is with the goal of reconstructing the spaces in which I had been or in which something happened : reconstructions of space, of memory, in the form of maquettes" – Tatiana Trouvé[7]

In an interview in 2009, Trouvé commented that, "Time is the theme underlying all my work."[4] In that, her work – according to art critic Roberta Smith – synthesizes a wide range of sources, including Richard Artschwager, Reinhard Mucha, Ange Leccia, Eva Hesse, and Damien Hirst.[10]

Recognition edit

In 2020 Trouvé was awarded France’s Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her contribution to culture.[2]

Collections edit

Public and private collections that hold Trouvé's works include Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; MAMCO, Geneva; François Pinault Foundation, Venice; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Migros Museum, Zürich; and FWA, Foundation for Women Artists, Antwerp, Belgium.[11]

Art market edit

Trouvé is represented by Gagosian Gallery,[12] and Galerie Perrotin.[1]

Exhibitions (selected) edit

Bibliography edit

Criqui, Jean-Pierre and Hoptman, Laura, Tatiana Trouvé. The Great Atlas of Disorientation, Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2022. ISBN 9782844269256

Trouvé, Tatiana. From March to May. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2021. ISBN 9781951449223

Trouvé, Tatiana. "From March to May" in Brooklyn Rail (September 2021), as part of section "How Long Is Now?" guest edited by Francesca Pietropaolo: https://brooklynrail.org/2021/09/criticspage/From-March-to-May

Maor, Hadas. Tatiana Trouvé: The Great Atlas of Disorientation. Tel Aviv: Petach Tikva Museum of Art, 2018. ISBN 9789657461341

Trouvé, Tatiana, Katharina Grosse, Chiara Parisi and Cecilia Trombadori. Tatiana Trouvé/Katharina Grosse: le numerose irregolarità. Milan: Electa, 2018. ISBN 9788891818799

Berg, Stephan, Letizia Ragalia, Ellen Seifermann, Barbara Hess, Richard Shusterman, Francesca Pietropaolo, Robert Storr and Stefan Gronert. Tatiana Trouve: I tempi doppi. Köln: Snoeck, 2014. ISBN 9783864420801

Gough, Maria, Tatiana Trouvé and Heike Munder. Tatiana Trouvé. Köln: Walther König, 2011. ISBN 9783865608581

Pakesch, Peter, Adam Budak, Dino Buzzati, Dieter Roelstraete, Pamela M. Lee, Francesca Pietropaolo and Maria Gough. Tatiana Trouvé, Il Grande Ritratto. Köln: Walther König, 2010. ISBN 9783865607539

Storr, Robert, Catherine Millet and Richard Shusterman. Tatiana Trouvé. Köln: Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2008. ISBN 9783865603524

During, Élie and Jean-Pierre Bordaz. Tatiana Trouvé: 4 between 3 and 2. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2008. ISBN 9782844263650

Lamy, Frank. Lapsus. Vitry-sur-Seine, France: Mac/Val, 2007. ISBN 9782916324326

Trouvé, Tatiana and Hans Ulrich Obrist. Djinns. Chatou, France: CNEAI, 2005. ISBN 9782912483379

During, Élie, François Poisay and Maurice Fréchuret. Tatiana Trouvé: Aujourd’hui, hier, ou il y a longtemps. Bordeaux, France : CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, 2003. ISBN 9782877211970

Maraniello, Gianfranco. Tatiana Trouvé: Polders. Paris: Palais de Tokyo, 2002. ISBN 9782847110081

Boyer, Charles-Arthur and Joseph Mouton. Tatiana Trouvé. Nice, France: Villa Arson, 1997. ISBN 9782905075932

References edit

  1. ^ a b Sansom, Anna (7 June 2022). "Screaming plants, lockdown drawings and African magic: Tatiana Trouvé on creating unsettling, imaginary worlds". The Art Newspaper. Archived from the original on 13 August 2022. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  2. ^ a b c Rysman, Laura (10 June 2022). "Artist Tatiana Trouvé makes monuments from memories". Financial Times. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  3. ^ Rehberg, Vivian (May 2008). "Tatiana Trouvé". Frieze Magazine (115). Archived from the original on 5 July 2022. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  4. ^ a b c Pietropaolo, Francesca (23 February 2010). "In the Studio: Tatiana Trouvé". Art in America. Archived from the original on 21 May 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
  5. ^ "Tatiana Trouvé biography". Galerie Perrotin. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
  6. ^ Rooney, Kara L. (May 2010). "Tatiana Trouvé". The Brooklyn Rail. Archived from the original on 1 October 2022. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  7. ^ a b Mangion, Éric. "Tatiana Trouvé" (PDF). Les presses du réel. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 April 2018. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  8. ^ "Tatiana Trouvé". Mac Val (in French). Archived from the original on 18 May 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  9. ^ "Paroles d'artistes: Tatiana Trouvé - Polder (2001)". Centre Pompidou (Page described embedded video) (in French). 2009. Archived from the original on 19 August 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  10. ^ Smith, Roberta (2 July 2010). "Tatiana Trouvé at the Gagosian Gallery". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 17 June 2022. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  11. ^ "Tatiana Trouvé: Recent Works, Geneva, June 13–July 31, 2014". Gagosian. 12 April 2018. Archived from the original on 8 August 2021. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  12. ^ Kennedy, Randy (2 March 2015). "Tatiana Trouvé Unwinds History in Public Art Project". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 26 July 2022. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  13. ^ a b c d e f g Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, ed. (2008). Tatiana Trouvé (in French). Allemagne, Köln. p. 244. ISBN 978-3-86560-443-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  14. ^ Tatiana Trouvé (in French). Allemagne, Köln. 2008. p. 244. ISBN 978-3-86560-443-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  15. ^ "Exposition "Double Bind" de Tatiana Trouvé au Palais de Tokyo". Paris Art (in French). 12 January 2008. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  16. ^ Soubaigné, Isabelle (12 January 2008). "Art Critique - Double Bind - Tatiana Trouvé". Paris-Art (in French). Archived from the original on 23 February 2023. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  17. ^ Latimer, Quinn (1 April 2010). "Tatiana Trouvé". Frieze Magazine (130). Archived from the original on 24 October 2021. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  18. ^ "Tatiana Trouvé - Il Grande Ritratto". Kunsthaus Graz. 2010. Archived from the original on 9 October 2012.

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