Oscar Tuazon at Le Consortium

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Goodbye, 2008
dome, tents, nylon, duct, tape 396.24 x 231.14 x 152.4 cm

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installation view at Le Consortium Dijon, February 2015

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installation view at Le Consortium Dijon, February 2015

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installation view at Le Consortium Dijon, February 2015

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Stand In, 2013
plaster, grey paint, fiber glass, steel 165,5 x 165,5 x 5 cm, 150 kg

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Steel, oak post, office chair, 2011
steel, wood, chair 154 x 142 x 83 cm

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It is it, 2015
marble tiles

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Numbers, 2012
steel, screws, 240 x 360 x 240 cm

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WORK NOW, 2011- 2012
styrofoam, wood, concrete, mirror, 228 x 90 x 50 cm

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installation view at Le Consortium Dijon, February 2015

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4 frames / What’s a wall, 2015
wood, steel section, 4 plaster panels, approx. 350 x 322 x 21,5 cm

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Real Effects, 2015
concrete 171,5 x 1,133 x 10,5 cm

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Real Effects, 2015 (detail)
concrete 171,5 x 1,133 x 10,5 cm

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installation view at Le Consortium Dijon, February 2015

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Scott Burton (version 1), 2012
concrete 106 x 50 x 86 cm

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Scott Burton (version 2), 2012
concrete 106 x 50 x 86 cm

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installation view at Le Consortium Dijon, February 2015

all images © wfw

This feature is part of the ongoing collaboration with Novembre Magazine who presents more view of the exhibitions on http://novembremagazine.com/oscar-tuazon-studio-at-le-consortium-dijon

For his first survey in an institution in France, American artist OSCAR TUAZON (b.1975) presents new and previous sculptural interventions that revolve around his investigations on the fields of architecture, sculpture, and performance.

The exhibition, titled Studio, fills the two-thirds of the Centre d’Art in Dijon with works that might be best described as sculptures in an abandoned construction site after dark. On both levels of the art center, visitors encounter a series of objects and structures that he mainly constructed on the exhibition site with materials that were available there because TUAZON is a doer or at least he is truly interested in the physical process of constructing something rather that in design as he explained*. Just like a scientist, he likes using the properties of these fund materials and let them dictate the resulting work.  Often in wood, metal, stone, and concrete, the results which look very contemporary nevertheless straddle the fashionable and divide between outsider and insider, self-taught and educated, trash and assemblage, and among art, craft and design.

What’s even more striking than the works which cover the spectrum between found and made in a fresh way, is how the pieces discuss together and engage ingeniously with the existing architecture of the Consortium. Each room appears to have the perfect portion of art properly placed in the proper amount of space enabling the works to not be contemporary art cliches but to offer a multitude of lessons in looking.

Studio by OSCAR TUAZON is on view at Le Consortium in Dijon till May 17, 2015

 



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