Kasper De Vos
Belgium, b. 1988
Kasper De Vos (b. 1988) gained recognition for his installations and sculptural interventions that humorously and sculpturally referenced consumerism and its associated food culture. Specifically, this included setting up a burger stand alongside the Ghent academy where one could buy inedible sculptures resembling burgers and other items typically found on such a menu. Later, in Antwerp, he built a real pizza oven topped with a flag shaped like a slice of golden Swiss cheese. In Knokke, he set up a market stall on the ostentatious Zeedijk where he sold clay sourced from local soil. Similar confusions appear in his sculptures, such as a sculpted arm seemingly suspended in mid-air holding a black trash bag, or large plaster eggs beside a giant egg carton.
Often, his sculptures combine found objects or materials with sculpted elements. They seem to arise from a tactile and visual pleasure, a play of formal and thematic associations, and a gentle humor manifesting as an open, playful, inventive dance with materials, techniques, objects, and ideas. His work evokes stories without being illustrative or didactic. It is a kind of thinking through forms that, in turn, invites us to think and dream. Surprising, inventive, generous, plastic, virtuosic, open, and dreamlike.
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Often, his sculptures combine found objects or materials with sculpted elements. They seem to arise from a tactile and visual pleasure, a play of formal and thematic associations, and a gentle humor manifesting as an open, playful, inventive dance with materials, techniques, objects, and ideas. His work evokes stories without being illustrative or didactic. It is a kind of thinking through forms that, in turn, invites us to think and dream. Surprising, inventive, generous, plastic, virtuosic, open, and dreamlike.
☞ instagram Kasper De Vos
☞ https://www.kasperdevos.com/
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