Nils Vandevenne
Technical object: fin, 2022
Residences Art Explora x Artagon
To coincide with the transformation of Hangar Y into a cultural and events venue, 10 young, recently graduated artists have been invited by Art Explora and Artagon to reuse materials from the hangar's construction site to create works of art, during a residency in September 2022.
Nils Vandevenne
Technical object: fin, 2022
dust, resin, wood, 2.70 m x 50 x 50 cm
Description of the work
Nils Vandevenne's sculpture is characteristic of his obsession with martyrs and other residual traces of manual labor. His interest in the anthropology of gesture and the material history of the life of the support is expressed here through the use of dust accumulated on site during the transformation of Hangar Y. Once amalgamated with resin, this raw material is altered, sculpted and worked by the artist's hand.
Erected as a sculptural piece with an ambiguous form, it evokes both a wing or sail for soaring through the air, and a recently excavated fossil. Seemingly poised, as much a worked technical object as a rough-looking found object, the whole unfurls weightlessly on its wooden base towards the heights of the Hangar's nave, like an echo of the forms once produced within it.
Biographyof the artist
Nils Vandevenne is a French artist who lives and works near Paris. He graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2021.
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