“Through my work I try to defamiliarize the world, through manipulations, reproductions, a lot of molding, I question known things to make them tilt towards the absurd, the poetic or the zany.
My sources come from everyday life, from science, from the arts, or simply from familiar objects collected and to which I apply processes of my invention: transformation, inversion, change of materials, of scale, of substance, to question their status, their value, their function, their very existence. I look for the paradox, the appearance of unexpected meanings. "
After studying Biology, Christian Gonzenbach (born in 1975) graduated from the University of Applied Arts (now HEAD), a year in ceramics in Japan, and a master's degree in Fine Arts in London (Chelsea College). , two children, a residency at CERN and currently teaches sculpture at HEAD, in addition to his activity as an artist with around ten exhibitions per year in Switzerland and abroad. Constantly questioning our material culture, our relationship with objects and their manufacturing techniques, Christian Gonzenbach has developed an experimental space closer to a laboratory than to a workshop. He ressembles an alchemist seeking that point where suddenly everything turns upside down, when values are reversed and we finally see more clearly or we see nothing at all.