Executed with great force and provocative simplicity, young Swiss artist Valentin Carron's show at Kunsthalle Zürich offers a minefield of multiple readings. At the entrance, a clock on a square monochrome background tells the time, giving a pragmatic purpose to artistic creation. Elsewhere, Carron reproduces classical sculptures in polystyrene, including Trikorn, an ancient Roman bull's head. In the last gallery, a perfect replica of Giacometti's Walking Man is recast, the figure giving the fist to the wall it faces. Two The Dog sculptures stand at attention nearby, turning early existentialist iconography into the image of an angry homeless man with skinny dogs in trail.

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A solo show of new work by Valentin Carron opens at Praz-Delavallade in Paris on March 17.