BenandSebastian

Overview
BenandSebastian
Made in 2009 by the English-British artist duo, Benandsebastian, the iconoclastic Seat [...] in wood and plaster is build from fragments of ruined architecture and leftovers from construction sites. Delicately collapsing and elaborately erected, Seat [...] stands as if caught in time. As chair and classical portico, ruin and construction site, the work exists in a state of spatial and temporal suspension. Beneath the work’s surfaces lie miniature architectural structures that suggest an ambiguity of scale and a vulnerable relationship between the work’s bold outer surfaces and the fragile inner constructions that support them.
With a strong background in the humanities, Benandsebastian’s sculptures are meticulously handcrafted and take the form of elaborate structures with a keen sense of detail, while embracing important philosophical and sociological concepts. Their work is impossible to delineate, it embodies a form of elusiveness in a grey area between sculpture, installation, design, craft and architecture.
 
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Works
  • The Mountain
    The Mountain
  • Seat [...]
    Seat [...]
  • Made In Ruins
    Made In Ruins
  • The Outsider – The Insider
    The Outsider – The Insider
  • The Gift
    The Gift
  • Completely Dusty
    Completely Dusty
Biography
BenandSebastian

Benandsebastian is a visual artist duo that was formed in 2006 by Ben Clement and Sebastian de la Cour, who met and graduated in architecture from Barlett University College, London in 2006. The duo’s elaborately crafted sculptural and installation artworks have been exhibited in Europe, the United States, and Japan. The duo’s exhibition, Phantom Limbs, which took ‘the presence of absence’ as its common theme, showed at The Danish Museum of Art & Design in Copenhagen, Denmark from November 2011 until April 2012 and was on display at Trapholt Museum in Kolding, Denmark, until April 2013. Benandsebastian’s work has been shown in various museum exhibitions in Europe, China and Japan including Den Frie, Centre for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, and is part of museum collections such as Kanazawa Museum, Japan; Trapholt Museum, Denmark and Shanghai Museum of Glass, China. 

 
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