The Electronics and Digital Technologies (ETN) department organized a conference, Monday – November 17th at 5:30 pm, to present the educational project surrounding the “Cybertrash @ Polytech Nantes” exhibition. Tassou spoke to the students, discussing his career path, style, techniques, methods, and his place in the art market. He commented on several pieces and engaged in a Q&A session with the audience.
For the third consecutive year, Tassou will present three sculptures to the Senate of Rome in january 2026, rewarding the best Italian university theses in computer science, theoretical physics, and mathematics. These awards are presented by the Italian Intelligence Society, SOCINT, in partnership with the British company G.Research.
The Ecole Polytechnique of the University of Nantes held its 2025 Open House on Saturday, January 25. Tassou presented some thirty recent sculptures. This exhibition marks the start of a larger educational project developed over several years and entitled: “Cybertrash @ Polytech Nantes. Contemporary Creation and Technological Innovation”.
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See the complete collection
Since 2013, Tassou is permanantly exhibiting in the main hall and reception room of the Hotel La Pérouse in the historic center of Nantes (France).
This exhibition, featuring six sculptures, is open every day.
Hôtel La Pérouse 3 allée Duquesne – 44000 Nantes (France)
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The Italian Society of Intelligence SOCINT is a scientific association whose aim is to promote the culture and study of intelligence in Italy. In partnership with G‑Research, a leading international company in quantitative and technological research, a prize worth 30,000 euros will reward the three best Italian doctoral theses in mathematics, physics, computer engineering, artificial intelligence and data science. This ceremony in the Sala dei Caduti di Nassiry of the Senate of the Republic in Rome will take place on Thursday January 25, 2024. The cybertrash trophies created by Tassou will then be awarded to the winners. These objects are phytostructures. Imaginary plants. They measure 104 cm high with a diameter of 25 cm and a weight of 5 kg. It is an assembly of 56 drums, photoconductive organic rollers found in ink cartridges for laser printers. They are used to deposit the ink on the paper. They are made of aluminum covered with a photosensitive film whose color can vary from fluorescent green to Irish green to turquoise blue. To seal the end of the drums, a washer is cut from a computer keyboard membrane previously painted to match the color of the drums. It is a flexible printed polyester film which constitutes the circuit which connects all the keys. The base is made up of two elements. A microprocessor tester used for research in the Texas Instruments laboratories in Villeneuve Loubet until 1998 and a round wooden board veneered with a yellow motherboard from the tower of a Compaq desktop computer made in China in the 2000s. These trophies are very solid and do not fear sunlight since they are accustomed to the laser beam. Over time, the drums will gradually change color, becoming golden brown after around ten years of exposure to daylight. Furthermore, the carbon footprint of these objects is very low, the packaging boxes having also been recovered.
In the spring of 2023, G.Research inaugurates its new headquarters and unveils its Cybertrash collection.
Raising awareness of responsible consumption and denouncing the logic of Black Friday, without feeling guilty, but by putting citizen choices at the heart of environmental and social issues related to consumption, such is the goal of Green Friday. On this occasion, the Ressourcerie de l’Ile invites Tassou to exhibit in the entrance hall of the store.
This exhibition, which presents 4 pieces, will take place:
from Tuesday 22 to Saturday 26 November 2022.
At the beginning of the year La Passerelle launched a call for projects for all professional craftspeople who wished to participate in the theme: “Day [is] Night”. Tassou responded by offering the piece “Varilight” and was selected. He will therefore participate in this exhibition from October 17th to December 30th, 2020.
“Varilight” is a totem that measures 101 cm high by 40cm wide and 30 cm deep. Its weight is 25kg. It is an assembly of Compaq motherboards and black glass. It will be offered at 3000 euros. Its name comes from Vari-Lite, an automated lighting system specially designed for concerts and first used on stage by the group Genesis in 1980.
Read Ouest France article
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Pictures of the opening :
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From June 17th to 23th, 2019, artwork by Tassou was exhibited at the “Parc des Expositions du Bourget “during the “53rd International Paris Airshow” at the Aserti stand “53rd International Paris Arishow”
How can we modify, transform, associate, combine objects, materials? This is the theme of the “Metamorphoses” exhibition which invites us to discover different ways, different aspects of transformations. Tassou participates in this collective exhibition in the company of the designer Liv Chun and the sculptor Mich Mao.
At “La Passerelle” from March 23th to May 19th, 2019.
See collection on view See the invitation card (french)
After summer Tassou exhibits in Paris invited by the Federation of Metallurgy CFE-CGC. The collection consists of 24 recent pieces that will be placed or hung in the lobby and the salons of 33 avenue de la République until the end of the year.
For their personal collection, the syndicate acquires 4 pieces: Roadrunner, Watson, Greentech and Tagsys.
See the opening invitation card
Read the editorial by President Gabriel Artero
Read the press release
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Major event in the West, the “Antiquités Brocante Design” fair at Parc des Expositions in Quimper is renowned for the quality of the objects presented. As part of this event organized by Philippe Kergonna rom November 9th to 11th, 2018, Tassou was this year’s guest of honor.
Read the article from “Ouest-France”.
ASERTI Group, the European electronic equipment maintenance network headquartered in Vannes, has introduced the collection of used electronic components to its employees by installing in its workshops throughout Europe containers called “Tassou Trash”. Once filled, they are sent to the Tassou’s workshop. These components then serve as a substrate for the creation of new works. In order to help them make the most of this approach, the Piu communication agency, located in Saint Avé, has produced a 12-page limited edition brochure, illustrated with recent works by Tassou that are part of the company’s private collection.
Invited by Mr. Klaus of the cultural association Digitus Impudicus, Tassou exhibits at the “Garage” emblematic place of creative, innovative and cultural exchanges in Saint-Nazaire from 1st to 31st August 2018 on the occasion of the second Art Market.
On the initiative of the Chambers of Crafts and the tourist office of the Community of Communes Vie and Boulogne, Tassou exhibits to the Renaissance castle of Apremont in Vendée from Saturday 18th to Friday 31st August 2018.
For the summer, Tassou exhibits on the banks of the Loire at the Oudon train station from July 26th to August 12th, 2018.
Opening Sunday, July 29th at 11am.
Moving more easily, eating better, housing using less energy, inventing projects for one’s school or neighborhood … This exhibition invites you to try new ways of life through an interactive journey in 10 thematic areas. BELEXPO is an initiative of the Brussels-Capital Region to raise awareness of the challenges of urban environment and develop citizens’ capacity for action. It is part of an Environmental Education program that brings together hundreds of schools and actors in Brussels. With BELEXPO, live an experience that will make you love the city of tomorrow. For this permanent exhibition, the Brussels Institute for Environmental Management acquired the Cybertrash sculpture “Ola”, an assembly of mobile phones, manufactured by Tassou in 2009. Inauguration of BELEXPO on wednesday, may 30th, 2018.
From 2015 to 2018 september, Tassou has been constantly exhibiting in the lobby of the Mercure Angers Cente between the Mall gardens and the Palais des Congrès.
Entitled “Cybertrash Café”, this exhibition presented 15 wall sculptures, totem and coffee tables.
Tassou participates in the 4th biennale of Contemporary Art in Beauce in museum of La Corbillière.
See the article in “La Nouvelle République”(in french)
The Chamber of Trades and Crafts and the Regional Mission of the Crafts organize a highlight on the occasion of the 12th edition of the European Days of Crafts of Art which this year has the theme: “Futures in transmission” .
On this occasion, with other artists, Tassou exhibits at “GARAGE”, emblematic place of creative, innovative and cultural exchanges in Saint-Nazaire
from Friday 6th to Sunday 8th of April 2018 at 40 rue des Halles.
Tassou will exhibit at the 4th SEVRIA art fair on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th March 2018.
Tassou exhibits at Village d’Artistes from 2017 november 10th to december 31th.
Tassou exhibits during the 12th JRES, Journées Réseaux de l’Enseignement et de le Recherche (Networks of Teaching and Research Days), in the center of the Conferences of Nantes from 14th to 17th November 2017.
In August 2017, Félix Baumgartner in Monaco discovers the Cybertrash and acquires the “Praktica” totem of Tassou at the Art Seiller Gallery in Saint-Paul de Vence (06570 – France).
*Translation: French Telecommunications Heritage*
Born in 1957 in France: 1992, begins a work of plastic artist. Collecting the electronic components, those of electricity, telephone, data processing also like 45 rpm discs, he adjusts them by choosing them for their shape and their color, in a rigorous architectural orthogonality, most often built in like the breakages of the printing press. The aesthetic that emerges from this abundant but disciplined imagination seems to date from the 1950s, at the time of the first pinball machines or the first jukeboxes.
Expo: 1997, 1999, Arnoux, Paris (P) (2)
(1)Translation: “Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Plastic Arts”
(2)Personal exhibition
