Eco' Parc Mougins: Sculpture Through Accumulation and Assemblage

Eco' Parc Mougins in Mougins, France, presents "La sculpture autrement" from June 19 to October 2, 2011, curated by Maurice Fréchuret, Ariane Coulondre, and Diane Pigeau. The exhibition explores how industrial mass production radically renews sculpture practice, linking mass production to new volumetric processes. It features works by Arman (accumulations of everyday objects), Ben (assemblages of found items like pots, canes, feathers, lamps, doll heads, padlocks), Martial Raysse (totems stacking department store goods), and César (compressed automobiles). Other artists include Raymond Hains, Jean Dupuy, Robert Malaval, Erik Dietman, Noël Dolla, and Dominique Angel, whose sculptures poeticize the banal and everyday. Pierre Descamps, Karim Gheloussi, and Emmanuel Régent further divert objects into singular metamorphoses, while Florian Pugnaire and David Raffini present works where cars or bulldozers curl up.