Installation view
Installation view
Antonin Giroud-Delorme, Regional Manifestation IX, 62.5 x 43cm, Scanner, heraldic chess rook adhesives, charred table top, burnt branches, black tinted beeswax, natural hemp, dried branches, never worn gift/bonnet, brass scale chain element, purple hair bandage, dice, Burgundy red wine, corn starch, 2021
Antonin Giroud-Delorme, Regional Manifestation VI, 42x35cm, Scanner, heraldic flaming heart reversed collage on glass, black tempted beeswax, charred wood table top, nettle roots, natural hemp, dried branches, white cotton anti-allergenic glove, torn bandage, fragment of mechanical clock, red wine from Burgundy, corn starch, 2020
Antonin Giroud-Delorme, Regional Manifestation VI, 42x35cm, Scanner, heraldic flaming heart reversed collage on glass, black tempted beeswax, charred wood table top, nettle roots, natural hemp, dried branches, white cotton anti-allergenic glove, torn bandage, fragment of mechanical clock, red wine from Burgundy, corn starch, 2020
Antonin Giroud-Delorme, Regional Manifestation VIII, 61x42cm + 61x42cm (Diptych), Scans, heraldic tear tape, burnt tabletop fragments, burnt branches, black tinted beeswax, natural hemp soaked in wax, dried Calathea leaves, brass doorstops, purple earplugs, torn coat sleeves, red Burgundy wine, cornstarch, 2020
Antonin Giroud-Delorme, Regional Manifestation VIII, 61x42cm + 61x42cm (Diptych), Scans, heraldic tear tape, burnt tabletop fragments, burnt branches, black tinted beeswax, natural hemp soaked in wax, dried Calathea leaves, brass doorstops, purple earplugs, torn coat sleeves, red Burgundy wine, cornstarch, 2020
Installation view
Antonin Giroud-Delorme, Eupepsia, Variable dimensions, Louis XV style gilded bronze chandelier, gold-plated pendant chain, black back support belt, tinted beeswax, bramble thorns, natural hemp, tinted beeswax ear and tongue mold, green clay and plaster stomach mold, half dried lemon, dried fleur de lys, openwork plasterboard, medical bandages, dried and burned branch, dried herbs, skeleton and fragments of denim pants, fragment of black computer keyboard, brass clock hands, fragment of white lace underwear, heather earth, charred Louis XV style seat legs, white volcanic stones, 2021
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Antonin Giroud-Delorme, Eupepsia (detail), Variable dimensions, Louis XV style gilded bronze chandelier, gold-plated pendant chain, black back support belt, tinted beeswax, bramble thorns, natural hemp, tinted beeswax ear and tongue mold, green clay and plaster stomach mold, half dried lemon, dried fleur de lys, openwork plasterboard, medical bandages, dried and burned branch, dried herbs, skeleton and fragments of denim pants, fragment of black computer keyboard, brass clock hands, fragment of white lace underwear, heather earth, charred Louis XV style seat legs, white volcanic stones, 2021
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Antonin Giroud-Delorme, Eupepsia (detail), Variable dimensions, Louis XV style gilded bronze chandelier, gold-plated pendant chain, black back support belt, tinted beeswax, bramble thorns, natural hemp, tinted beeswax ear and tongue mold, green clay and plaster stomach mold, half dried lemon, dried fleur de lys, openwork plasterboard, medical bandages, dried and burned branch, dried herbs, skeleton and fragments of denim pants, fragment of black computer keyboard, brass clock hands, fragment of white lace underwear, heather earth, charred Louis XV style seat legs, white volcanic stones, 2021
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Antonin Giroud-Delorme, Eupepsia (detail), Variable dimensions, Louis XV style gilded bronze chandelier, gold-plated pendant chain, black back support belt, tinted beeswax, bramble thorns, natural hemp, tinted beeswax ear and tongue mold, green clay and plaster stomach mold, half dried lemon, dried fleur de lys, openwork plasterboard, medical bandages, dried and burned branch, dried herbs, skeleton and fragments of denim pants, fragment of black computer keyboard, brass clock hands, fragment of white lace underwear, heather earth, charred Louis XV style seat legs, white volcanic stones, 2021
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Antonin Giroud-Delorme, Eupepsia (detail), Variable dimensions, Louis XV style gilded bronze chandelier, gold-plated pendant chain, black back support belt, tinted beeswax, bramble thorns, natural hemp, tinted beeswax ear and tongue mold, green clay and plaster stomach mold, half dried lemon, dried fleur de lys, openwork plasterboard, medical bandages, dried and burned branch, dried herbs, skeleton and fragments of denim pants, fragment of black computer keyboard, brass clock hands, fragment of white lace underwear, heather earth, charred Louis XV style seat legs, white volcanic stones, 2021
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Antonin Giroud-Delorme, Eupepsia (detail), Variable dimensions, Louis XV style gilded bronze chandelier, gold-plated pendant chain, black back support belt, tinted beeswax, bramble thorns, natural hemp, tinted beeswax ear and tongue mold, green clay and plaster stomach mold, half dried lemon, dried fleur de lys, openwork plasterboard, medical bandages, dried and burned branch, dried herbs, skeleton and fragments of denim pants, fragment of black computer keyboard, brass clock hands, fragment of white lace underwear, heather earth, charred Louis XV style seat legs, white volcanic stones, 2021
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Antonin Giroud-Delorme, Eupepsia (detail), Variable dimensions, Louis XV style gilded bronze chandelier, gold-plated pendant chain, black back support belt, tinted beeswax, bramble thorns, natural hemp, tinted beeswax ear and tongue mold, green clay and plaster stomach mold, half dried lemon, dried fleur de lys, openwork plasterboard, medical bandages, dried and burned branch, dried herbs, skeleton and fragments of denim pants, fragment of black computer keyboard, brass clock hands, fragment of white lace underwear, heather earth, charred Louis XV style seat legs, white volcanic stones, 2021
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Antonin Giroud-Delorme, Eupepsia (detail), Variable dimensions, Louis XV style gilded bronze chandelier, gold-plated pendant chain, black back support belt, tinted beeswax, bramble thorns, natural hemp, tinted beeswax ear and tongue mold, green clay and plaster stomach mold, half dried lemon, dried fleur de lys, openwork plasterboard, medical bandages, dried and burned branch, dried herbs, skeleton and fragments of denim pants, fragment of black computer keyboard, brass clock hands, fragment of white lace underwear, heather earth, charred Louis XV style seat legs, white volcanic stones, 2021
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Antonin Giroud-Delorme, Eupepsia (detail), Variable dimensions, Louis XV style gilded bronze chandelier, gold-plated pendant chain, black back support belt, tinted beeswax, bramble thorns, natural hemp, tinted beeswax ear and tongue mold, green clay and plaster stomach mold, half dried lemon, dried fleur de lys, openwork plasterboard, medical bandages, dried and burned branch, dried herbs, skeleton and fragments of denim pants, fragment of black computer keyboard, brass clock hands, fragment of white lace underwear, heather earth, charred Louis XV style seat legs, white volcanic stones, 2021
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Antonin Giroud-Delorme, Eupepsia (detail), Variable dimensions, Louis XV style gilded bronze chandelier, gold-plated pendant chain, black back support belt, tinted beeswax, bramble thorns, natural hemp, tinted beeswax ear and tongue mold, green clay and plaster stomach mold, half dried lemon, dried fleur de lys, openwork plasterboard, medical bandages, dried and burned branch, dried herbs, skeleton and fragments of denim pants, fragment of black computer keyboard, brass clock hands, fragment of white lace underwear, heather earth, charred Louis XV style seat legs, white volcanic stones, 2021
Installation view
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Antonin Giroud-Delorme, Eupepsia (detail), Variable dimensions, Louis XV style gilded bronze chandelier, gold-plated pendant chain, black back support belt, tinted beeswax, bramble thorns, natural hemp, tinted beeswax ear and tongue mold, green clay and plaster stomach mold, half dried lemon, dried fleur de lys, openwork plasterboard, medical bandages, dried and burned branch, dried herbs, skeleton and fragments of denim pants, fragment of black computer keyboard, brass clock hands, fragment of white lace underwear, heather earth, charred Louis XV style seat legs, white volcanic stones, 2021
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Antonin Giroud-Delorme, Eupepsia (detail), Variable dimensions, Louis XV style gilded bronze chandelier, gold-plated pendant chain, black back support belt, tinted beeswax, bramble thorns, natural hemp, tinted beeswax ear and tongue mold, green clay and plaster stomach mold, half dried lemon, dried fleur de lys, openwork plasterboard, medical bandages, dried and burned branch, dried herbs, skeleton and fragments of denim pants, fragment of black computer keyboard, brass clock hands, fragment of white lace underwear, heather earth, charred Louis XV style seat legs, white volcanic stones, 2021
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Antonin Giroud-Delorme, Eupepsia (detail), Variable dimensions, Louis XV style gilded bronze chandelier, gold-plated pendant chain, black back support belt, tinted beeswax, bramble thorns, natural hemp, tinted beeswax ear and tongue mold, green clay and plaster stomach mold, half dried lemon, dried fleur de lys, openwork plasterboard, medical bandages, dried and burned branch, dried herbs, skeleton and fragments of denim pants, fragment of black computer keyboard, brass clock hands, fragment of white lace underwear, heather earth, charred Louis XV style seat legs, white volcanic stones, 2021
Antonin Giroud-Delorme revels in optics, yet shuns the superficial. He is a vessel, offering combustions of invented icons, exquisite emblems. One is challenged with new languages via frustrated aggregations. The Natural translates the synthetic, and vice versa. In “Eupepsia” Giroud-Delorme’s transmutations proliferate throughout the space, inviting poesis and imaginal play. His constructions are atemporal, suspended in perturbations, riddled with obfuscations. What is moving here is the utter lack of movement. The viewer lies in wait, per the artist’s instructions. One plants his feet squarely and denies inertia, leaving the body to do work while mired in liminality.
Perhaps less about direct ingression, more about expansiveness.
A new baroque, rhizomatizing experience, connection, aesthetic, ethics.
Shattering a “harmonious, homogenous, and thoroughly knowable”[1] Nature in favor of infinitudes.
Dreams of discovery and innovation are not resigned to modernist thought, there is a fissure in the cynic’s logic.
Screen, image, interface, and the results of iconoclasm.
Behold Giroud-Delorme’s open cosmologies.
Giroud-Delorme’s work gestures towards processes of amalgamation and a series of disturbances. With unexpected assemblages and spatial configurations, the sculptures seep and expand into broad horizons. The artist revels in new topologies via interfaces between unlike materials such as Burgundy red wine and cornstarch, mechanical clock fragments and natural hemp. The results are beautiful, if not a little grotesque- with distinct parts serving as means to ends. Here the viewer is left to his own devices, brushing up against themes of domesticity, spatial mapping, bodily mutations, politics, and intimacy.
Through careful deconstruction and recombination, he is reaching towards some essential spirit.
1. Edouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation
— Reilly Davidson
