Bugada & Cargnel

Hand Made Guitar Bodies (en collaboration avec Daniel Dewar)
2004
wood, paint
Unique

"Handmade Guitar Bodies" presents eight wooden sculptures, painted in different colors, that take the form of guitar bodies. With this piece, Wilfrid Almendra draws from a bank of everyday objects, shapes issued from a familiar field whose subjects and forms recall the 'handmade', mixing references from art history with pop culture imagery.

Handcrafted BMX
2003
steel, aluminium
4.8 x 10 centimeters
Unique

With "Handcrafted Objects", the exact reproduction of an industry-made line of tools and leisure objects done entirely by hand, Wilfrid Almendra appropriates the models and the forms of industrial processes, displacing them into another context. In this work, the artist re-evaluates industrial forms and products, and revisits the heritage of the everyday object from an angle that is at once poetic and removed, charged with an optimisim and a consideration that we rarely come across these days.

Handcrafted BMX Crank
2003
aluminium
16 x 16 centimeters
Unique

With "Handcrafted Objects", the exact reproduction of an industry-made line of tools and leisure objects done entirely by hand, Wilfrid Almendra appropriates the models and the forms of industrial processes, displacing them into another context. In this work, the artist re-evaluates industrial forms and products, and revisits the heritage of the everyday object from an angle that is at once poetic and removed, charged with an optimisim and a consideration that we rarely come across these days.

Handcrafted Pickax (en collaboration avec Daniel Dewar et Grégory Gicquel)
2003
wood, steel
96 x 6 centimeters

With "Handcrafted Pickax", Wilfrid Almendra appropriates the models and the forms of industrial processes, displacing them into another context. In this work, the artist re-evaluates industrial forms and products, and revisits the heritage of the everyday object from an angle that is at once poetic and removed, charged with an optimisim and a consideration that we rarely come across these days.