Cuts Across the Land

Works displayed

Wilfrid Almendra

5.1
Le Flamboyant
She's Electric (Red # 1)

Wilfrid Almendra

5.1
2008
wood, aluminum, steel, lead, wood stain
220 x 150 centimeters
Unique

'5.1', an imposing mobile suspended at the center of the space, comes from the improbable intersection of rectangular loudspeakers – evoking anything from a shopping center to a stadium to a jail yard -, truck horns or morning glories, sublimated into a piece of chrome jewellery, like an oversized brooch or earring. Five blossoms deck an aluminium axis with a lead ballast, twisted like a flower's stem or like the frame of a customized car; initially crafted from wood, they have been covered with multiple coats of shellac whose red-to-orange scheme evokes a sunset, in contrast to the severity of the metal stem.

Wilfrid Almendra

Le Flamboyant
2008
wood, aluminium, steel, leather, clarkfoam, paint, marker, varnish
200 x 160 centimeters
Unique

Flamboyant is a hybrid of a seahorse and a hummingbird transposed onto an imposing, muscular and sensual mass of wood. Its base is covered by aluminium plates and its crown is topped with a golden lamb leather mane. The addition of a pair of diminutive wings undermines Flamboyant's monumental presence.

Wilfrid Almendra

She's Electric (Red # 1)
2008
wood, ceramic, felt, screenprinting, teflon
93 x 28.5 centimeters
Unique