Coming a long way from Adolf Loos’ milestone article “Ornamentation and crime”, 1908, where Loos argues that functionality and absence of ornamentation in the sense of the human saving in power is an indication of high cultural development. From the outset of the last century to Raimond Hains aesthetic-political positions in form and content Debombourg takes contemporary artists like Maurizio Cattelan and Thomas Schütte into consideration for the most humorous and human momentum in his art.
Tradition of Excellence is a term that leads at first sight to some question marks considering the disturbing plastic and graphic work of Baptiste Debombourg.
Presentation: Drawing series, frame.
Elements: Pencil on paper.
Realisation time:
I: 105h / II: 70h / III: 59 h / V: 75h / VI: 90h
VII: 110h / VIII: 71h / IX: 120h / X: 100h
XI: 104h / XII: 100h / XIII: 300h
Date:
16/10/2008-2009-2010-2011
