54 Calacatta Oro marble building blocks

Black paper and white paint

70 x 31,5 x 38,5 cm (sculpture)

30 x 42 cm (drawing)

(2020)

The blocks have been cut and sanded into 12 different basic shapes, based on wooden toy blocks. They are not affixed in any way, but placed on top of each other in a specific building order, based on the artist's instructions, which are included.

Photography: Cedric Verhelst

Instigated by the Corona crisis, I’ve decided to disassemble Variation VI into its 53 constituting elements. As an act of social distancing through art, the work has been taken apart into its building blocks and each piece is being sold separately – allowing the work to find a much wider audience and ownership. The modularity of the work has been made absolute: it will only exist as a building plan and individual pieces.

Variation VI has never been shown publicly: it was supposed to be shown in a 2020 exhibition which was cancelled due to the corona crisis. I hope someday to be able to show it as a whole for a future exhibition, which will require the collaboration between 53 different owners of the building blocks – bringing them together through the act of separation.

Each individual building block will come with a print of the corresponding building drawing. The original drawing will remain in the possession of the artist.

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