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Tête à tête with Gilles Mihalcean – Staging – Esse

Tête à tête with Gilles Mihalcean

Charles Guilbert

Photo: Suzelle Levasseur
For this tête-à-tête, Gilles Mihalcean and I decided to highlight the key aspects of his practice by focusing our conversation on one sculpture, Le bouton.

Gilles Mihalcean: Six thin slices, I tell the butcher. The flat, square package he gives me doesn’t resemble a pig in any respect and yet, as soon as I stick the slices in the bun with mustard, cheese, and lettuce, it really starts to take shape and work in piggy ways.

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