The Chapuisat Brothers create works on the borderline between monumental sculpture and micro architecture. Their installations, built with a method invented for each case, are most often specific to a place, and therefore ephemeral. They evoke dreams, fears or childhood experiences, and affirm a convergence between art and life.
Gregory and Cyril Chapuisat (born respectively in 1972 in New York and 1976 in Bienne) live and work "in situ". They construct complex environmental works, notably in the form of labyrinths, tunnels, burrows, alveoli, mountains or spheres, which the spectator discovers in all positions, often in the half-light or even in the dark. The artists have exhibited at the Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris, the CAN in Neuchâtel, the FIAC in the Tuileries gardens (2009 & 2014) and the LISTE Art Fair Basel (2010). They participated in 2006 and 2009 at ArtBasel as part of the SWISS ART AWARDS.
The Chapuisat brothers create works on the borderline between monumental sculpture and micro architecture. Their installations, built with a method invented for each case, are most often specific to a place, and therefore ephemeral. They evoke dreams, fears or childhood experiences, and affirm a convergence between art and life. The creation and realisation phases take shape in long periods of collective work, during which the artists sometimes live in their works. Their vivid imagination has taken shape in several projects in which they have shown a clear preference for wood. But they are also interested in other materials, such as concrete in Destruction créatrice (Wartesaal, Zurich, 2008), cardboard (for Hyperespace Neue Kunsthalle, St. Gallen, 2005), or neon (L'Ambition d'une idée, 2010, Argon > Neon (Proto #1), 2017).