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.
A twisted root sometimes stays as he found it. Elsewhere, a stone sits in a hollow carved for it; the base, a log, keeps its bark. His sculptures read as ritual objects; the grotesque remains legible, without ornament.
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There are canvases as well. The faces return there, laid flat, under a stipple applied dot by dot.
All paintingsThe artist also makes sculptures and paintings from what you describe: a figure carved from found wood, a canvas conceived for a particular wall. He reviews each proposal before committing. Requests are made through a form, and you receive a reply within two business days.
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