Les Fous d’En Face

Les Fous d’En Face occupies Galerie Max Hetzler’s two Paris spaces and presents three new installations that draw on absurdist humour, spatial subversion and open-ended narratives while reflecting on the artists’ past. The works are How to Become an Artist, a hyperreal young skinny boxer in a full-scale boxing ring referencing Michael Elmgreen; The Optimist, a large red steel sphere resembling an oversized clown nose mounted on the white gallery wall with an audio clip of applause; and Il mio Giardino, a monumental monochrome figurative sculpture strapped to the roof of a vintage Fiat 500 with two small red boxing gloves hanging from the rear-view mirror.