Building Blocks for Bucolia


This group of works was developed within the framework of the group exhibition and residency project 'Waldeinsamkeit', curated by Koi Persyn


Beernem, West-Flanders, June-Aug 2020

Xypy

robinia wood, rhododendron wood, steel, sticks, dried grass, rainwater, rabbit skin glue, 230 x 150 x 130 cm, 2020

photo: Chantal Van Rijt

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pencil on paper, rabbit skin glue, 25 x 35 cm, 2020

photo: Chantal Van Rijt

‘Xypy’ is a sculpture with a rocket stove compartment bored into its core, which burns itself from the inside out when set alight. The fire heats a steel pot perched on top, in order to cook rabbit-skin glue. This is then used to paste drawings on trees and surfaces in the surroundings. The pot can be taken off in order to carry the warm glue around the domain, using the handles made from rhododendron branches found in the forest. Every time the sculpture burns it edges closer to self-destruction. Many of the drawings were left to gradually decay through exposure to the elements.

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pencil on paper, rabbit skin glue, 25 x 35 cm, 2020

photo: Mark Grootes

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pencil on paper, rabbit skin glue, 25 x 35 cm, 2020

photo: Chantal Van Rijt

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charcoal on paper, rabbit skin glue, 25 x 35 cm, 2020

photo: Mark Grootes