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Octave Rimbert-Rivière+
Year of birth: 1988
Place of birth: La Seyne sur Mer, France
octave.rimbert.riviere@gmail.com
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"Octave Rimbert-Rivière’s work is the result of unlikely chimerical gatherings: accumulations, juxtapositions, experimentations with scales and inversions. Artisanal refinement meets the mechanics of mass industrial production while the triviality of everyday objects is combined with artistic and popular references." Marie Béchetoille
Inanimate Friends; Pots; Can You Survive Eating Nothing But Potatoes?
The sculptures of Octave Rimbert-Rivière (La Seyne sur Mer, France, 1988) cross-over, mash-up, code-switch, trans-mutate and counter-craft without hierarchy of process or material. The installation Inanimate Friends consists of heads blown from colored glass. The heads seem to have faces on both sides and are ghost-like hanging in the exhibition space. Behind the glass sculptures, Rimbert-Rivière installed two-dimensional works that are suggesting the same spatial qualities as the heads that flirt with the viewer like a trompe l’oeil. The emptiness of those grotesque figures is reminding us that everything around us could be an imitation, a ghost coming back from the past, or a combination of something haunting and humorous.
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