Work from the Collection

Benny

Artist: Erika Vogt
Date: 2015
Materials: Urethane resin, Dust, Pieces of wood, Acrylic paint, Metal rail, Rope, Leaves, Pebbles, Recycled materials
Collection: Lafayette anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin

Initially known for her work in video and experimental cinema, Erika Vogt has mastered other media to pursue a social approach to art. For several years now, she has focused on sculpture, which allows her to reunite artworks with their audiences in the same dimension. Benny is an integral part of this artistic renewal while bearing witness to a kinetic continuity with her previous works. Framed by the bars of a clothing rack, this two-sided sculpture is shiny on one side and matte and textured on the other, the latter made up of different residual materials. In its workmanship, size, and cut-outs the size of a hand, Benny is of a human scale, recalling the objects of Lygia Clark— an artist who wished to see her oeuvre manipulated by other hands and bodies than her own.


Exhibitions

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Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (France)
from 11 Oct 2019 to 16 Feb 2020
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Fondation Villa Empain, Bruxelles (Belgique)
from 13 May 0016 to 21 Aug 2016
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Simone Subal Gallery, New-York (États-Unis)
from 10 May to 14 Jun 2015
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