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sculpture, inclusion, acrylique, embedment, acrylic

Rondelles éventail (2017)

n°190 | Rondelles éventail | 25x27x3cm | 2017

sculpture, inclusion, acrylique, embedment, acrylic

Perles de verre africaines (2017)

n°191 | Perles de verre africaines | 25x27x3cm | 2017

Bijoux pellucides I (2017)

n°192 | Bijoux pellucides I | 25x27x3cm | 2017

Bijoux pellucides II (2017)

n°193 | Bijoux pellucides II | 25x27x3cm | 2017

Couronnes de montres ll (2016)

n°170 | Couronnes de montres II | 25x27x3cm | 2016

Billes II (2016)

n°158 | Billes II | 25x27x3cm | 2016

Boutons métalliques (2016)

n°165 | Boutons metalliques | 25x27x3cm | 2016

Pions en plastique coloré (2016)

n°161 | Pions en plastique coloré | 25x27x3cm | 2016

Boutons dorés (2016)

n°164 | Boutons dorés | 25x27x3cm | 2016

Couronnes de montres l (2016)

n°169 | Couronnes de montres I | 25x27x3cm | 2016

Seringues alignées (2016)

n°172 | Seringues alignées | 35x38x3cm | 2016

Trombones (2016)

n°166 | Trombones | 25x27x3cm | 2016

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Eric Bossard was born in Geneva in 1954. After completing his studies in physiotherapy (Geneva) and ethnology (University of Neuchâtel), he spent seven years in Africa with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), UNICEF and as an independent ethnologist. He is currently working part-time as an artist.

The street and our society of over-consumption are the prime focus of Eric Bossard’s works and in fact furnish the “raw material” for his collages and acrylic inclusions. This includes things destined for the dustbin or for recycling (advertisements, leaflets and other waste dropped in the streets) and objects no longer needed and offered for sale in flea markets.

For these abandoned objects which no longer serve their original purpose, Bossard creates new roles, giving a metaphorical meaning to things that have lost their original value. He bestows on them a second life. A kind of artistic upcycling process that highlights the fact that our waste mirrors our consumer society. An image that we tend to prefer to ignore.