Hammer
Artist:
Oscar Tuazon
Date:
2014
Materials:
Concrete, Chisel
Collection:
Lafayette anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
This multiple by Oscar Tuazon, published in an edition of 150, is a chisel buried in a concrete cylinder. This small sculpture is part of the Hammer Projects series of larger works. Despite its size, a certain monumentality emanates from this contemporary column. Its rough and ready appearance once again demonstrates Oscar Tuazon's fondness for straying from the prototype. Favouring building materials, the sculptor works at the intersection of art and architecture. He creates objects to be manipulated or devices to be passed through in order to question our behaviour and the ways in which we inhabit the city. By removing this tool, now fixed in solid matter, from its function, the artist invents other ways of seeing and invites us—with humour—to engage with appropriation.
Text written by Veronika Doszla as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Text written by Veronika Doszla as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.