Tom Sachs, an artist born in 1966 in New York, has given DIY its letters of nobility. From the American flag to the space rocket, from the jukebox to the hot dog vendor's kiosk in Manhattan, from the Brillo checkouts dear to Andy Warhol to the McDonald's emblem, he cast his ironic gaze on the world of consumption that symbolizes America. And he has drawn from them vertiginous sculptures of precision, trompe-l'oeil of a crazy virtuosity that play with density, weight, material, strange readymades that could never fulfill their primary function.
It's a way of playing with the essence of things that gives his art, a priori playful, a more serious scope. A bit like the theatre, which, through all its artifices, gives an account of life. A lot of mischief in this American who studied architecture in London and worked for two years in Frank Gehry's office in Los Angeles.
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