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Julien Berthier

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Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France

- Ren Ebel

Julien Berthier

Flaneuring in the footsteps of the situationists before him, Julien Berthier is preoccupied by those camouflaged apparatuses which guide and delimit the flow of people through urban space: the common potelet – better known in English as a bollard or metal traffic post. With ‘Passion Potelet’, an exhibition of the French artist’s musical sculptures and détourned readymades at Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois in Paris, Berthier makes a triumphant muse out of that most lowly and ubiquitous instrument of urban traffic control.

Occupying the centre of the main gallery space is

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