by Mark Jenkins
Sculpture : assemblage
91 x 73 x 142 cm 35.8 x 28.7 x 55.9 inch
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Sculpture: assemblage
Dimensions cm • inch
91 x 73 x 142 cm 35.8 x 28.7 x 55.9 inch Height x Width x Depth
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The sculpture cannot be displayed outdoors
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Artwork location: France
Having realized that a sculpture was not only an inert object, however artistic it may be, but that this object could modify the space which surrounds it and interact with the spectators, the artist creates 'human' sculptures of a striking realism, dressed in clothes and wearing wigs. These characters evoke typically urban figures, banal enough to blend anonymously into the urban setting. It is as if the works were hidden or camouflaged by their hyperrealism, people can easily pass by them without even realizing that they have just passed in front of a sculpture and not in front of a real being.
The artist chooses to place these bodies, of which only the appearance is human, in unexpected, risky or absurd places and situations: asleep on a billboard, thrown in a dumpster with only the legs sticking out, balancing at the top of a building, leaning against a wall where their heads seem to be embedded or still enthroned, fishing rod in hand, in the middle of a fountain. Freed from their weight and the barriers that the human mind would place on them, bodies defy gravity as well as social conventions.
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Danysz Gallery • France
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Mark Jenkins fills the city with life-size sculptures. A real expert in scenography, he creates troubling encounters between his models and the passers-by. He seeks to question, provoke or disturb with sculptures whose attitudes and movements have an striking resemblance with that of a human being. Installed in public spaces, his punchy and unusual stagings of human clones do not fail to arouse amusement, anxiety or even shock.
He consideres that the reaction of the people is an integral part of the life cycle of his pieces. He tries to create a social experiment with its alteration of reality. But what is a woman doing on the top of that building? and that man lying in a puddle, or the colored balloons floating above him? Mark Jenkins' hyperrealistic installations are spectacular in their ability to make us hesitate between fiction or reality.
Mark Jenkins has installed his sculptures in big international cities such as; New York, Rome, Philadelphia, Washington DC etc.
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