{"id":175746,"date":"2009-01-01T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esse.ca\/portfolio\/olivier-severe\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T09:13:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T14:13:54","slug":"olivier-severe","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/staging.esse.ca\/en\/portfolios\/olivier-severe\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivier S\u00e9v\u00e8re"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hors jeu <\/em>& Simili<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Aside from the physical notions of weight, form and gravity that \u00adcharacterize sculpture, Olivier S\u00e9v\u00e8re questions the language of the discipline itself. Through a process of diversion, he deliberately uses \u00adinappropriate materials to reinterpret manufactured objects. He chooses marble, glass, bronze or porcelain to materialize his works and give them sense or, rather, \u201cnon-sense.\u201d This acute look at the \u00admateriality that \u00adsurrounds us introduces a resistance to the real and explores \u00adcontradictory concepts such as fragile and solid, presence and absence, reality and fiction. In S\u00e9v\u00e8re\u2019s sculptures, form coincides with \u00adtangibility, whereas the content tends towards improbability and the idea of \u00adreversibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Simili 1, 2, 3, 4<\/em>, bronze, 2008.
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