TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE
26/04/2012.
by Baptiste Debombourg
metalocus, PEDRO NAVARRO
metalocus, PEDRO NAVARRO
The development of new concepts and installations based on a prospective analysis of the consumerist context and the praxis of consumers. Baptiste Debombourg brings up discussions on waste-oriented societies and inheritances of the consumption along with the idea of the needlessness of the pure ornament, which decayed not only in the art of the 60's but before.
X -Walther P38 silencieux-: 30x56cm. 2011.
VI -Luger P08 Parabellum-: 30x40cm. 2010.
Detail. VI -Luger P08 Parabellum-: 30x40cm. 2010.
V -Kalachnikov AK-47-: 42x110cm. 2010.
IX -Dragunov SVD-: 50x145cm. 2010.
Detail. IX -Dragunov SVD-: 50x145cm. 2010.
XI -Famas-F1-: 45x100cm. 2010.
Detail. XI -Famas-F1-: 45x100cm. 2010.
XII -Walther PPK silencieux-: 30x56cm. 2011.
Detail. XII -Walther PPK silencieux-: 30x56cm. 2011.
XIII -M134D Minigun-: 74x180cm. 2011.
Detail. XIII -M134D Minigun-: 74x180cm. 2011.
Coming a long way from Adolf Loos’ milestone article “Ornamentation and crime”, 1908, where Loos argues that functionality and absence of ornamentation in the sense of the human saving in power is an indication of high cultural development. From the outset of the last century to Raimond Hains aesthetic-political positions in form and content Debombourg takes contemporary artists like Maurizio Cattelan and Thomas Schütte into consideration for the most humorous and human momentum in his art.
Tradition of Excellence is a term that leads at first sight to some question marks considering the disturbing plastic and graphic work of Baptiste Debombourg.
Presentation: Drawing series, frame.
Elements: Pencil on paper.
Realisation time:
I: 105h / II: 70h / III: 59 h / V: 75h / VI: 90h
VII: 110h / VIII: 71h / IX: 120h / X: 100h
XI: 104h / XII: 100h / XIII: 300h
Date:
16/10/2008-2009-2010-2011
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Baptiste Debombourg
Debombourg, born in 1978 is a graduated sculptor at the Ecole National des Beaux Arts in Lyon and has been then post-graduated at the Ecole National Supérior des Beaux Arts, Paris. In France - represented by Patricia Dorfmann - one of the outstanding young artists of his generation, with numerous public presentations at home and abroad, he is worth to be discovered in Germany. Along with his brilliant technical abilities and his provoking consumerist- and society-critical statements he’s got the credibility giving a strong voice in a fearful art world focusing more than ever on formal aspects only.
Individual exhibitions.-
2013.- Flow, Centre d'Art Actuel l'Oeil de Poisson, Quebec (Canada).
2012.- Iris, Galerie Lot10, Brussels (Belgium).
2012.- Justice & Prudence, Le Lieu, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Quebec (Canada).
2012.- YIA art fair, Young International Artists, Paris (France).
2012.- Massacre Innocent Galerie Patricia Dorfmann, Paris (France).
2012.- AGONY IN THE GARDEN, Krupic Kersting Gallery, Cologne (Germany).
2012.- L'appartement, Nathalie Miltat & Damîen Bertelle-Rogier, Paris (France).
2012.- Volta Basel, stand Krupic Kersting Gallery, Basel (Switzerland).
2012.- Aérial, Abbey Brauweiler, Commissaires Nadia Ismail & Dr Astrid Legge, Cologne (Germany).
2012.- Césium, Galerie RDV, Nantes (France).
2011.- A Tradition of Excellence, K.U.K Gallery, Cologne (Germany).
2010.- Les mains en l'air, Galerie Interface, Dijon (France).
