Arnaud Cohen
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January 28, 1968
Arnaud Cohen | |
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 Wim Wenders performing with Arnaud Cohen on Cohen's Dance over me, at Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany, October 2017 | |
| Born | Arnaud Cohen January 28, 1968 Paris, France |
| Known for | Artist |
Arnaud Cohen (born January 28, 1968) is a French contemporary artist, sculptor, and visual artist.
Presented in 2015 by the daily Le Figaro, Arnaud Cohen began his career as a visual artist in 1997 by integrating with the Marwan Hoss gallery (Paris and Brussels). Marwan Hoss was then also Vice President of the International Fair of Contemporary Art.[1] After a setback following the partial closure of the Marwan Hoss Gallery in 2000, Cohen was back at work in 2005.
His practice is close to twentieth-century propaganda practices used both in the 1920s and 1930s in Russia and Germany and also in the late 1960s and 1970s to serve the proletarian cause (hence his exhibiting on the occasion of May 68 commemorations side by side with Gérard Fromanger, Jean-Jacques Lebel, and Erró at the Salvador gallery, an exhibition curated by collector Yves Cothouit),[2] but also since the 1950s to serve the commodification of goods and services. Cohen, like Jeff Koons, uses the popular alphabet, but he uses these letters to write words.
