Hubert Duprat's Dissection of Reality
Hubert Duprat's practice involves cutting and isolating, using as his first object of dissection the artistic, scientific, and fantastical legacy of figures such as Eugenio d'Ors, Smithson, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Roger Caillois, Robertson, and Duchamp. He moves between mediums including photography, installation, and sculpture, exploring themes like the constructive capacity of aquatic caddisfly larvae, the natural fantastic of stones, the fluctuating image of the studio, and the artifice of marquetry. His work performs an autopsy on the cracks of reality, reflecting on interferences between studio and world, concrete and fantastic, plane and volume, conceptual vigor and baroque extravagance, leaving authority to the checkerboard and the unusual.
Key facts
- Hubert Duprat cuts and isolates as a method.
- His first object of dissection is the legacy of Eugenio d'Ors, Smithson, Huysmans, Caillois, Robertson, and Duchamp.
- He works across photography, installation, and sculpture.
- Themes include aquatic caddisfly larvae, stones, studio imagery, and marquetry.
- His work is described as an autopsy of reality's cracks.
- He explores interferences between studio and world, concrete and fantastic, plane and volume, conceptual vigor and baroque extravagance.
- Authority is left to the checkerboard and the unusual.
- The article was published in artpress in 1995.
Entities
Artists
- Hubert Duprat
- Eugenio d'Ors
- Robert Smithson
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
- Roger Caillois
- Robertson
- Marcel Duchamp
Institutions
- artpress
Sources
- artpress —