ÜGLY
Sculptures · Robert Bibeau
Multimedia sculptures hand-carved in the Plateau Mont-Royal. Wood provides the frame; depending on the piece, stone, crystal or gathered vegetal matter joins it. Figures leave the wood through subtraction. Voids count for as much as mass, and some of the polishing takes on an almost ceremonial quality. Outsider art, on the side of the 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 work sometimes calls to mind the twisted corporeality of Berlinde De Bruyckere, carried here into wood. Sculpture as ritual object, keeping the grotesque legible without dressing it up.
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