Video: Hollywoodoscopies: Jeremy Laffon's Mint Towns. Sculptural structures made of gum plates
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
To create works of art from chewing gum, it is not at all necessary to chew it for this. French artist Jeremy Laffon did not eat a single gum from those that went into the construction of his sculptural compositions from the project Hollywoodoscopies … This author's minty towns, like houses of cards, are made up of several thousand pieces of chewing gum. Skyscrapers, bridges, towers, pyramids and other complex geometric shapes - this is the very mint city, which took the artist more than three months of painstaking work. Jeremy Laffon built it on the principle of cards, folding the "plates" so that they kept balance and kept adjacent structures from falling. On the one hand, gum is heavier than cards, and therefore buildings are more stable, but on the other hand, under the weight they sag and settle, which threatens the sculpture with premature destruction. But the flexibility, stickiness and pliability of the material covers all its shortcomings, makes it possible to build much more complex and original structures, such as spiral houses and towers - that's why the artist builds cities from gum.
The mint city of Hollywoodoscopies is two meters high and about three meters long. For its construction, the author needed about 4 thousand chewing plates, which he first bought with his own money, but then one of the manufacturers of this delicacy began to help him. Despite its stickiness and ductility, gum has proven to be a tricky building material. At first, the artist planned to build a city using only these properties of the material, but then he still had to use glue. However, this did not increase the lifespan of the original design.
In front of the audience, the artist melted several bearing plates of gum, and the entire city slowly collapsed, turning into mint ruins. Thus, the author tried to convey the state of frustration in his work. The performance took place at the Association Limousin Art Contemporain gallery in the French city of Limoges, in Jeremy Laffon's homeland.
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