Work from the Collection

"Suppressed, Underestimated and Falsified Role"

Artist: Koenraad Dedobbeleer
Date: 2014
Medium: Sculpture
Materials: Wood, painted metal
Collection: Lafayette anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
Suppressed, Underestimated and Falsified Role may look like a chair, but it is nothing of the sort: Koenraad Dedobbeleer borrows formal codes from everyday objects in order to hijack and dismantle them. Like a decoy, his sculpture disrupts the cohesion of words and things, but unlike the grapes of Zeuxis, there is no mistaking it: the use of the object is undermined in order to better question our capacity for sensory understanding and our ability to know within the framework of an episteme specific to a culture and an era. Within the system of fine arts, Koenraad Dedobbeleer questions the classification of things in order to better underline the porosity of the artificially established limits and to show their perpetual renewal, an obstacle to the temptation of the simplistic nature of the of the imaginary.

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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