Xavier Mazzarol at Xavierlaboulbenne, Berlin

Home in Transit, 2015
metal, gas cylinder, plastic tube, 178 x 180 x 80cm

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exhibition view at Xavierlaboulbenne, Berlin, April – June 2017

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Penner, 2017
beer glass bottles, 135 x 43 x 2cm & 93 x 36 x 2cm

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Penner, 2017
beer glass bottles, 135 x 43 x 2cm & 93 x 36 x 2cm

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exhibition view at Xavierlaboulbenne, Berlin, April – June 2017

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Glück, 2017
aluminum, synthetic jacket, motor, variable dimension

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Penner (brown), 2017
beer glass bottles, 96 x 47 x 2cm

all images courtesy of the artist and Xavierlaboulbenne, Berlin

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Some politely call it “turbulent times”, others strongly feel that fundamental rights, free circulation and societal advancement are crumbling, while elemental requisites such as a home and work are becoming the privilege of a generation.  Against morose fatalism, the artist observes social behavior and organizes pessimism.  Five singular works with oblique correspondences of form or motif that question the familiar, unhinged domesticity and parallel economy constitute XAVIER MAZZAROL’s one-person exhibition.*

XAVIER MAZZAROL at Xavierlaboulbenne in Berlin is on view until June 10, 2017.

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*press release