Paul Kos — À propos — Slash Paris

Born in 1942 in Rock Spring, Wyoming (USA), Paul Kos lives and works in California. An
internationally renown artist, he was one of the forerunners of conceptual art in the 1960’s, in particular in the San Francisco area where he has been teaching for over thirty years. Kos was among the first artists (in step with contemporaries such as Bruce Nauman and Vito Acconci) to incorporate video, as well as sound and interactivity, into sculptural installations.

One of the defining characteristics of Kos’s work is a sense of play — indeed, many of his pieces refer to and are organised around games such as pétanque, pool and chess. But even more fundamental is the synthesis of his life and work. His love of nature, his teaching, travels in Mexico, France, and Switzerland, his concern for humanity (balanced with a sense of the absurd) are all present in subject, symbol, or metaphor as Kos seamlessly integrates form and content into provocative and visually stunning works of art.