Sculpture titled "Mystère Dundee" by Baptiste Vanweydeveldt, Original Artwork, Ceramics

Mystère Dundee (2019) Sculpture by Baptiste Vanweydeveldt

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One of a kind

Artwork signed by the artist

Certificate of Authenticity included

This artwork appears in 2 collections

Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Sculpture, Ceramics / Terra cotta / Thread / String Art

Artworks classification

One of a kind (OOAK / Original Artwork)

One-of-a-kind works of art are also known as “OOAK” artworks. This means that every work of art is unique and there will never be another identical one.
Dimensions Height 6.7in, Width 9.1in
Fit for outdoor? No, This artwork can not be displayed outdoor
Categories Sculptures under $500 Outsider Art

Cette "Sloppy Céramic" à une forme liminale, c'est à dire entre deux états, à la fois crâne de cerf et reptile émergeant du marécage...
Piont commun entre les deux entité, c'est qu'elles conjuguent la couronne de bois pour le cerf et la carapace du tronc d'arbre pour le crocodile... Il est rare de voir un animal emprunter à la flore quelques attributs !

Tout autant de ce qui m'étonne, c'est les insectes qui font l'amour aux fleurs... Je ne m'imagine pas embrasser un tracteur... Bien que Mathew Barney dans un film de son jus "lama la rima" à une proposition de cette ordre... Bref...

Cette céramique plutôt petit fera office de caïman sur un buffet ou dessus de cheminée... Non loin de votre vaisselle baroque ou chandelier, on peut y déposer de l'encens ou papier d'Arménie... Disons qu'elle n'a d'autre utilité que l'exotisme d'un safari mental...

Elle évoque pour moi, une scène de film...
Un film australien des années 80, pas une grande réussite mais pour l'âge que j'avais à ce moment là "c'était ben fun !" (je tente l'accent canadien par écrit...ce qui n'a rien à voir avec le film ! Je suis juste entre deux états...)
Le héros de l'histoire pointe deux doigts de sa main (le pouce et le petit doigt, comme pour dire "Allo") vers la tête bovine d'une vache qui dors sur la route et manifestement ne veux pas bouger pour laisser le 4x4 traverser son désert...
Heureusement, le héros avec sa main qui dit "Allo", appuyé par un regard particulier sur le front de l'animal, lui telecommunique mentalement le soucis eoudipien de la croisée des chemins... Évidement l'animal s'exécute, tandis que la donzelle à impressionner qui attends dans la voiture se dit elle "sex is so cute" Mais sans vraiment le savoir non plus...

Avec du recul, je ne voudrai pas forcément revoir le film en question, mais peut bien relire "le magnétisme animal" de Frantz Anton Mesmer... L'homme pour qui on inventa le terme de "to mesmerize" (rien à voir avec le canadien qui fait des tournées avec des spectacle d'hypnose...)

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Ceramics

Sculpture technique using as raw material a malleable Earth which can have different color then cooked to increase its solidity.

Thread

Technique consisting in creating a work based on textile threads and which can be decorated by adding color or material.

String Art

Technique consisting of an arrangement of threads generally stretched by nails to create geometric shapes or representations.

Outsider Art

Invented by Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) in 1945, the idea is to create works with primitive graphics that take no academic reference into account. He will also advise to "draw like a child" and encourage self-taught artists.

Technic Sculpture

Sculpture is an artistic activity which consists of designing and producing shapes in volume, in relief, either in the round (statuary), in high relief, in low relief, by modeling, by direct carving, by welding or assembly. The term sculpture also designates the object resulting from this activity.

Baptiste Vanweydeveldt

France

Visual artist, born in 1978 in Lille. currently lives in Caen, France.

I situate my work between a laboratory of forms (search for volume through drawing, painting and sculpture) and a tendency towards DIY (recycling of found objects and materials, transformation of their uses, reinvestment of their signs and questions about their subjects). I approach several mediums at the same time in order to extend the creative process to other fields of research: anthropology, natural sciences, etc.
The pooling of the two works like a small world with its own energy flows.
Usually I start with a series of sketches, notes and diagrams. I also rely on my reading, on a lot of images, which I feed on with bulimia. I exhaust their meanings until there is emulsion. This may explain the dreamy but also saturated appearance of my installations. Without cultivating a pessimistic view of the world, despite everything, I question our future through figures that are close to us, towards an imaginary that I wish to be collective; it is an opening onto a composition with multiple perspectives.
My recurring themes are environmental around the domus (house, private sphere/public sphere, hospital, etc.) and the extended living, according to a spatial questioning centered on the flow of energies, on magnetism and a set of enigmatic correlations.