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Shelter #5 (2023) Shelter #5 Artist: Feipel & Bechameil Dating: 2023 Type: Sculpture Material: Ceramic, glaze Measures: 35,5 x 22 cm Acces / purchase date: 2023 Inventory number: 1756 -
Shelter #4 (2023) Shelter #4 Artist: Feipel & Bechameil Dating: 2023 Type: Sculpture Material: Ceramic, glaze Measures: 32,5 x 28 cm Acces / purchase date: 2023 Inventory number: 1755 -
Shelter #37 (2022) Shelter #37 Artist: Feipel & Bechameil Dating: 2022 Type: Sculpture Material: Ceramic, glaze Measures: 40 x 28 cm Acces / purchase date: 2022 Inventory number: 1724 -
Shelter #36 (2022) Shelter #36 Artist: Feipel & Bechameil Dating: 2022 Type: Sculpture Material: Ceramic, glaze Measures: 38 x 23 cm Acces / purchase date: 2022 Inventory number: 1723 -
Shelter #35 (2022) Shelter #35 Artist: Feipel & Bechameil Dating: 2022 Type: Sculpture Material: Ceramic, glaze Measures: 38 x 25 cm Acces / purchase date: 2022 Inventory number: 1722 -
Shelter #31 (2022) Shelter #31 Artist: Feipel & Bechameil Dating: 2022 Type: Sculpture Material: Ceramic, glaze Measures: 38 x 28 cm Acces / purchase date: 2022 Inventory number: 1721
Working as a twosome, Feipel & Bechameil produce installations where there is a mix of illusion, imagination, instability and illogicality within gridded and controlled places in the contemporary world. As sculptors but also amateur researchers and engineers, informed by a great sensibility with regard to the theatricality of the world and its various forms of beauty, they create works within a socio-historical, aesthetic, political and technical approach. In combining their many areas of know-how in various fields - drawing, sculpture, engineering, directing and presentation, and sets -, they are producing an oeuvre that is as formally accomplished as it is powerfully engaged.
The artists are forever questioning human life by way of themes such as the social and collective setting, life styles, the forms of architecture people occupy and the objects which accompany us in our daily round, the landscape that is presented to us, and the areas of freedom we are given, as well as the future being traced out for us. As robotics hackers Feipel & Bechameil propose a re-appropriation of the realm of technology in a sensitive way, using an eminently political gesture: taking possession of the expertise and know-how of industrial robotics, to apply them to the creation of artworks which describe our world in a different way.
Their works in the Baloise collection are part of the continuously expanding series ‘Shelters’, small ceramic sculptures as well as functional birdhouses. Through vivid colors of the glaze and through their partly geometric and sometimes organic shapes, these sculptures evoke joyful characters.
Feipel & Bechameil started to develop the birdhouses with the project ‘Cité d’urgences - Apus Apus’ and gave been awarded in 2018 the special price of the Jury from the COAL award in collaboration with the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris. The birdhouses are dedicated to the species whose survival is directly endangered by the scarcity of their habitat due to our modern lifestyle. The birdhouses aim to offer a new form of housing for the birds and hope to help re-integrated them within our living space and to allow a poetic co-habitation of mankind and other forms of nature.
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