Artists: Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel
Exhibition title: Animals and Sculpture
Venue: C L E A R I N G, Brussels, Belgium
Date: September 3 – October 17, 2020
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and C L E A R I N G
We carve local wood and local stone,
Our workshops are equipped with both old and modern machinery,
And with the help of a small team we made this exhibition.
Reliefs with courgettes and cloned human busts,
A corpulent mirror carp and a repetition of toes,
Arms, muscles and fragments of oily bodies out of oiled oak.
Sculptures in the round, depicting cabinets and chests of drawers,
As a meeting point between animals of different species and varieties of vegetables,
With smooth or hairy skins.
Benches, with Snails, Wild Mallows, Bumble Bees, Garden Tigers,
Cabbage Whites, Jersey Tigers, Colorado Beetles and Potato flowers.
Chisel strokes and embroidery stitches flickering, bees, moths and butterflies fluttering.
Sap and silica, animals, insects and plants of Europe, inter-speciesism,
Proto-industrial manufacture, mammalian fantasies and pastoral hallucinations.
Water, milk, puddles, earthy apples,
Rummaging in the mud, excavating, leaning, rubbing inside the block,
Rough and coarse grit, a granite beach.
A garden folly in the form of farmyard furniture,
A hollowed out trough, a pig,
An ornamental vessel for ordinary rurality.
Notes by Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, September 2020
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Animals and Sculpture, 2020, exhibition view, C L E A R I N G, Brussels
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Oak relief with courgettes, 2020, Oak wood, 64,5 x 43,8 x 16 cm
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Oak relief with courgettes, 2020, Oak wood, 54,5 x 43,8 x 16 cm
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Animals and Sculpture, 2020, exhibition view, C L E A R I N G, Brussels
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Animals and Sculpture, 2020, exhibition view, C L E A R I N G, Brussels
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Oak relief with feet, 2020, Oak wood, 54,7 x 43,7 x 16 cm
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Animals and Sculpture, 2020, exhibition view, C L E A R I N G, Brussels
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Animals and Sculpture, 2020, exhibition view, C L E A R I N G, Brussels
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Animals and Sculpture, 2020, exhibition view, C L E A R I N G, Brussels
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Oak bench with bumble bees, mallow flowers and snails, 2020, Oak wood and digital embroidery on cushion, 42 x 66 x 146 cm
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Animals and Sculpture, 2020, exhibition view, C L E A R I N G, Brussels
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Granite trough with pig, 2020, Granite stone, 175 x 220 x 165 cm
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Animals and Sculpture, 2020, exhibition view, C L E A R I N G, Brussels
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Animals and Sculpture, 2020, exhibition view, C L E A R I N G, Brussels
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Animals and Sculpture, 2020, exhibition view, C L E A R I N G, Brussels
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Oak relief with body fragments, 2019, Oak wood, 140 x 176 x 17 cm
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Animals and Sculpture, 2020, exhibition view, C L E A R I N G, Brussels
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Animals and Sculpture, 2020, exhibition view, C L E A R I N G, Brussels
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Oak bench with jersey tiger moths and snails, 2020, Oak wood and digital embroidery on cushion, 42 x 66 x 76 cm
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Animals and Sculpture, 2020, exhibition view, C L E A R I N G, Brussels
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Oak relief with body fragments, 2020, Oak wood, 88 x 85 x 16 cm
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Animals and Sculpture, 2020, exhibition view, C L E A R I N G, Brussels
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Oak cabinet with butternut squash, buttercup squash and noses, 2020, Oak wood, 161 x 202 x 68,3 cm
