Work from the Collection

In the Cold and Stupefying Air the Statues Sleep

Artist: Koenraad Dedobbeleer
Date: 2013
Medium: Sculpture
Materials: Wood, painted metal, Cardboard
Collection: Lafayette anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
Koenraad Dedobbeleer uses everyday objects that he considers by rethinking their proportions according to their possible use value. Displaced into an exhibition context and stripped of their function, these objects become material for interpretation. By integrating the usual presentation device—in this case, the tree-trunk-like plinth—into the work In the Cold and Stupefying Air the Statues Sleep, the artist blurs the boundaries commonly drawn between the everyday object and the sacredness of an artwork. Through this hybridity of the artefact, he is engaging in a form of relational aesthetics. The titles of his works are also thought-provoking, as they are never directly related to the object they designate. Koenraad Dedobbeleer thus plays with the common reflex of wanting to explain a work by its title and its connections with closely related objects.

© ADAGP, Paris, 2015

Exhibition

The Desperate, Furiously Positive Striving of People Who Refuse to Be Dismissed
Kunsthal Extra City, Anvers (Belgique)
from 05 Apr to 25 May 2014
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