Didier Vermeiren (1951)
Solide Plastique
1998 | Terre cuite sur bois peint | 137 x 119 x 119 cm
Traditionally, the sculptor models a figure in clay and then transposes it, for example into bronze, by means of a negative mould. Didier Vermeiren mixes these two processes and confuses us.
We can see a painted wooden base. There is no statue on this base, just an accumulation of a few pieces of terracotta, the remains of a scraping that is both solid and plastic. Didier Vermeiren's work questions the parameters of sculpture: its definition, its function, its history, its processes, its mode of presentation in space, its relationship to the viewer.
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