Christian Robert-Tissot

Christian Robert-Tissot tries to find a formal way of expressing certain words, everyday expressions, expressions of the people, family terms, slogans, words from the street that can be heard day in, day out and therefore hardly noticeable anymore.

Initially there was no hierarchy between the words and images in his works, but this changed. Language was given an increasingly important role. Christian Robert-Tissot deals with the language and the words of the specific situations in order to equip them with different, changing meanings and to include everyday life in his works. He moves the words out of the context in which they are normally used and “hands them over” to us simply as they are; fluid, open and incomplete. He plays with words and short, resonant, visually striking expressions or sound effects such as “krak”, “crac”, “crack”, “craque”. The work of Christian Robert-Tissot is always anchored in art and art institutions, he is strongly interested in the cliché of the culture of the masses. The words are chosen according to the context in which a work is presented. His most recent works are variable; they absorb a situation while commenting on it at the same moment.

His works are not dependent on any specific knowledge base or preconditions, since they contain the language, words and common codes of colloquial conversation. They are for both art lovers and the general public, understandable, his works appeal to all. Increasingly, they can also be found in public places, such as on house walls, walls, etc., so that everyday passers-by become the audience of his art.