Video: Gigantomania by Robert Terrien
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Usually viewing photographs from exhibitions of Robert Therrien (Robert Therrien) leaves behind ambivalent impressions. On the one hand, well-known objects are depicted: tables, chairs, dishes. On the other hand, there is something strange and incomprehensible in these works, but what exactly - you immediately understand when there is at least one person next to the author's works: they are all unusually large. And just in case - no, this is not Photoshop.
You can offer at least two options that inspired Robert Terrien to create these installations. First, this is the story of the girl Alice, who drank the liquid from the magic bubble and instantly shrunk to the size of a mouse. Secondly, this is the distant land of Lilliputia, where all things from the ordinary world seem simply huge. Perhaps, in the process of work, the author recalled precisely these stories, and perhaps completely different ones. But in any case, his installations are imbued with childish charm and atmosphere of beloved fairy tales.
Robert Terrien was born in Chicago in 1947 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. His name appeared in the press in the 1980s, when the author began to create everyday objects (such as jugs, doors or even coffins) from various materials: bronze, wood, copper. But real fame came to Terrien in the 1990s: it was at this time that the sculptor presented his first works of unrealistically large sizes to the public. According to the author, viewers perceive the same objects made at different scales in completely different ways: if we perceive an ordinary chair as a functional piece of furniture, then we can walk around a giant chair for a long time, looking at all its details and regarding it as art. an object.
Works by Robert Terrien are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture (Paris), Tate Modern (London), the Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane) and others.
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