ÜGLY
Sculptures · Robert Bibeau
Multimedia sculptures hand-carved in the Plateau Mont-Royal. Wood serves as the structural base, augmented depending on the piece with stone, crystals or gathered vegetal matter. Figures emerge through subtraction; voids count for as much as mass; polishing sometimes takes on a ceremonial quality. Outsider art, in the lineage of contemporary memento mori.
Beauty earned at the threshold of unease.
Read the full manifesto →He carves stone, wood and crystal in the Plateau Mont-Royal, integrates vegetal matter, opens passages through dense material. His work has appeared at Galerie Usine 106u under the ÜGLY Sculptures imprint.
The practice converses with Berlinde De Bruyckere, Tim Whiten, Catherine Heard and Shary Boyle. A sculpture conceived as ritual object, with a personal signature that renders the grotesque legible without dressing it as decoration.
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