Alain Bellino (French, b.1955, living and working in Nice)
Triceratops (five views) - antique bronze ornaments assemblage, gilded & rust patinated - 30 x 65 x 21cm
Joli Rouge (three views) - antique bronze ornaments assemblage, gilded, computer motherboard - 50 x 70cm
Deus Ex Machina - (four views) - antique bronze ornaments assemblage, gilded & rust patinated - 49 x 30 x 34cm
Financial time - (four views) - antique bronze ornaments assemblage, patinated - 50 x 80 x 29
Dragonfly - (three views) - antique bronze ornaments assemblage, patinated - 11 x 75 x 65cm
Babel Tower - (four views) - antique found bronze assemblage - gilded and patinated - 73 x 50 x 50cm
“In the 1980′s I discovered the world of metal and ornamentation in my father’s workshop where I learnt gold and silver plating and bronze restoration. After many years of technical research dedicated to rehabilitating and re-composing objects, I engaged in an artistic way in 2010. The ornament torn from its original support becomes the very structure of my sculptures. Bronze ornamentation assembled by extremely precise welding are the base material. Weighted with the nobility of the material joined to their own history, they support a fragmented memory and they bring me a precious help as well as a constraint. . . In my work of re-directing and re-assembling, which is both inconoclast(ic) and highly rigorous from a formal point of view, at crossroads between past and future, I try to rehabilitate the ornamentation.”
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