Étienne Bossut
Étienne Bossut (FR) is a contemporary artist.
Born in France in 1946. Lives and works in Dole. Recent exhibitions include: Musée Rodin, Paris; Château des Adhémar, Montélimar; Chapelle du Genêteil, Château-Gontier.
Some cans some lunch boxes / Some refrigerators and some small spoons / Some tins, some car hoods / Some chairs, some armchairs / Some knives, some pictures / Some neons, some trunks some songs / Even as well beams of light.
– ÉTIENNE BOSSUT (1997)
Étienne Bossut’s work borrows its references both from the field of industrial production and the consumer goods from our daily lives. The use of plastic, a simple, cheap and easy-to-handle material, to create his works clearly remits to ideas of standardisation and mass-production. In the context of car culture, the pieces on view in this exhibition, from barrels to bodywork, are seen as tragic icons of a period that seems to have exhausted its boundaries—the automobile and energy consumption. The worn out heroes of a crisis or the end of an era.
– Alberto Martín
In going through the work he has been making for the past 20 years, we will find exhibited, faithful to the foregoing, the objects evoked by Étienne Bossut in this little poem. To describe them, we will add that they are available in bright colours, that the armchairs shine and the car bodies gleam; everything, it seems, takes part in a ready-made aesthetic as part of pop and cheerful consumerism.
