Discover the Daniel Dewar, Grégory Gicquel Exhibition at Secession: Sculptures & Craft Techniques

This exhibition features the work of the artist duo Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel, who explore traditional craft techniques and merge them with unusual, often unsettling motifs. The display includes sculptures made from oak wood, ceramics, and other materials, which often combine furniture forms with organic elements such as internal organs, animal parts, and human limbs.

The exhibition at Secession presents the work of the artist duo Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel, whose practice is characterized by their hands-on approach to various craft techniques, including wood carving, stone masonry, ceramics, embroidery, and weaving. They often build their own tools and materials, emphasizing the process of creation. Their work challenges the digital age's perceived anachronism by engaging deeply with traditional, often manual, production methods. The exhibition features 16 works, including a continuation of their oak wood sculptures that hybridize furniture and autonomous art objects. These massive oak pieces are adorned with grotesquely carved figurative elements such as arms, noses, pumpkins, zucchini, and animal heads, appearing to grow out of chests, cabinets, and drawers. The artists describe these recent sculptures as a "meeting point of animals of different species and a variety of vegetables (…), as fantasies of mammals and pastoral hallucinations." Contrasting these are a series of handmade ceramic sculptures from 2015, mimicking commercial sanitary ware, which introduce a dialogue between material specificity and art's engagement with the ordinary and banal. The duo's work consistently plays with artistic codes, traditions, and conventions, infused with a mischievous humor.

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