Use sculpture
Contemporary Art | When Marcel Duchamp bought a bottle holder at BHV and presented it as a sculpture, a long and discreet progression began in the opposite direction. Use sculpture emerges today.
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Allen Jones, Refrigerator, 2002 (détail)
© Royal Academy of Arts
La sculpture d’usage, an exhibition conceived by the French artist Isabelle Plat at the Maubert gallery, lays out a new territory. Works that proudly display a function, neither ready-made, design object, furniture, nor decorative art. Artists dive into the space of functionality that allows daily use of the object : sculptures of woman-chairs and woman-refrigerators by the British artist Allen Jones or the repositioning of domestic objects by Nathalie Elémento. In the same vein, the young publishing house […]
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