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In a radical act of artistic transformation, Mike Bouchet has destroyed his monumental sculpture Sir Walter Scott. The entire work was fed into an industrial machine that shreds wood into fibers for OSB panels. From this material, Bouchet has created his new Relivare wall reliefs, now on view at Galerie Parisa Kind.
The sculpture Sir Walter Scott (2010) was itself already a reincarnation. It was made from Watershed (2009), a 300-square-meter suburban home that was floated, sunk, and re-floated in the Arsenale lagoon at the Venice Biennale. The house was later cut apart and transformed into Sir Walter Scott, a large-scale sculpture exhibited at institutions including Schirn Kunsthalle in 2010 and subsequently acquired into a private collection.
Nearly fifteen years later, Bouchet has subjected this work to yet another metamorphosis. In an act of material violence, the...More
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In a radical act of artistic transformation, Mike Bouchet has destroyed his monumental sculpture Sir Walter Scott. The entire work was fed into an industrial machine that shreds wood into fibers for OSB panels. From this material, Bouchet has created his new Relivare wall reliefs, now on view at Galerie Parisa Kind.
The sculpture Sir Walter Scott (2010) was itself already a reincarnation. It was made from Watershed (2009), a 300-square-meter suburban home that was floated, sunk, and re-floated in the Arsenale lagoon at the Venice Biennale. The house was later cut apart and transformed into Sir Walter Scott, a large-scale sculpture exhibited at institutions including Schirn Kunsthalle in 2010 and subsequently acquired into a private collection.
Nearly fifteen years later, Bouchet has subjected this work to yet another metamorphosis. In an act of material violence, the...More
