Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel

Artworks

https://player.vimeo.com/video/454117368

Legs

From tapestry weaving to granite carving, from chain sawing to firing ceramics, Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel’s (b. respectively in 1976 and 1975, they both live and work in Paris) artistic lexicon creates a joyful— albeit erudite—hodgepodge of types. Though the artists constantly quote pop culture references, thereby casually shrugging off the prevailing aesthetic canons and good taste, they do, however, take their place in the history of sculpture, from its ancient origins to the post-industrial era. The motifs they use throughout their work borrow as much from medieval recumbent effigies as from a form of abstraction developed by certain artists in the latter half of the 20th century.

Selected Exhibitions

2020
C L E A R I N G, Brussels, BE

2019
Fantasmes Mammifères, Biennale de Lyon - Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, FR Body of Work, Jan Kaps, Cologne, DE
Mammalian Fantasies, Kunsthalle Basel, CH

2018
Rosa Asora Rosa, C L E A R I N G, New York, USA

2017
The Mammal and the Sap, Portikus, Frankfurt, DE
Le Nu et la Roche, HAB Galerie, Nantes, FR
The Nude and the Sap, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL

2016
Stoneware Murals and Vessels, Tapestries and Wood Carvings, Jan Kaps, Cologne, DE Digitalis, Kiosk, Gent, BE

2015
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Front Desk Apparatus, New York, USA Stoneware Murals, Etablissement d’En Face, Brussels, BE

2014
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Brussels, BE La Jeune Sculpture, Musée Rodin, Paris, FR

2013
Le Hall, Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Jus d’orange, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Mr. I / Dewar & Gicquel, Graff Mourgue d’Algue, Geneva, CH

2012
Crêpe Suzette, Spike Island, Bristol, UK

CLEARING

2011
Sculptures sur bois, tapisseries et céramique, galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, FR

2008
Mason Massacre, Les Collections de St Cyprien, St Cyprien, FR

2007
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen, FR
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Chapelle du Genêteil, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Château-Gontier, FR Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR

2006
Hazelnut Cottage, galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, FR
Strike a Pose, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, AU
Ukiyo-e, FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, FR
Driving in the Abyss Behind a 2 Big Tits Lorry Truck Truck Mental Ray, Ecole municipale des beauxarts/Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, FR

2004
(DA) Heavy duty self made material boy hardware store, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, FR

2003
Scierie echo PKK, Public, Paris, FR

Featured Artwork

Legs

Year: 2012
Duration: 9 min 49 sec
Edition: 2/3 edition
Archival: master tape
Exhibition copy: mp4 digital file
Provence: Lovenbruck Gallery, Paris