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MARION VERBOOM
Charte, 2012. installation view. Photography : Marion Verboom.
Marion Verboom's sculptures are hybrids of forms borrowed from the history of sculpture,
from architecture and geology, but given unity by the materials. The source of her work
is drawing, which has enabled her to create a vocabulary of shapes and to gain a more
open understanding of sculpture, freed of questions of function and feasibility. This
freedom enables her to use a fragment as a self-contained form at the same time as a
part of a whole in delicately balanced assemblages. Her working practice is redolent of
grafting, both conceptually and physically. She melds figurative patterns and minimal
sculpture, architecturally inspired forms and sedimentary concretions. In her works Marion
Verboom seems to be exploring two opposing concepts of architecture: John Ruskin's
recommendations on ornamentation and Adolf Loos for the functionalist aspect. Yet in any
one sculpture she manages to avoid both by making it neither functional nor decorative.
Agger takes its name from the Latin word for a kind of fortification in the form of mounds of
earth at the time of the Romans. The exhibition consists of modules shaped by the impact
of light on their contours; it oscillates between the organic fluctuation of a surface and the
rigour of a geometric composition, expanding and contracting within the dimensions of the
allotted space. It is a composition, a cosmogony that involves nature, the human body, the
implement and construction. It is a "land or a landscape modelled by human hand".
A. L. tr. J.H.
Born in 1983 in Nantes (France), lives and works in Paris
(France).
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