While many artists use bricolage technique as a replacement for the lack of traditional skills required to create classic sculpture, this is not so for Nemo Gould. As one who was trained and has dabbled in sculpture for decades, I can say with assurance that bricolage, the way he does it, actually often requires more skill than just typically sculpting something from scratch. For example, his Re:Cycle 2006 (99" x 40" x 54") Chopper is made up mostly of aluminum elements. The more knowledgeable members of our audience can attest to the technical difficulty of working in that material, especially in the seamless way he deals with it.
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You are invited to study the above photo of his chopper, to see how many readymade elements you can recognize, but to get the full list, you absolutely have to go to an Instructables page on the project he has posted.
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The other image shown above: Giant Squid 2006 (6'7" x 10'8" x 3'6") is only a close-up detail of the entire amazing piece. It and many other exquisite works may be seen in his Nemomatic Website's Gallery. While there, be sure to admire his
Quicksilver 2007 motor scooter. Despite a dearth of pedal power, it is possibly even more impressive than his Chopper bike.
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Jim Wilson
Monsieur Duchamp didn't radically modify any element in the piece, which caused many problems in survival of the work. Almost since it was originally created, it has needed periodical
replication, since philistines have quite frequently tossed them out in the trash, starting with his own sister's tidying-up in 1915.
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The works of Mr. Gould don't have this problem, as it is impossible to confuse them with trash, since he heavily works into all the elements which go into them, to the extent that philistines might not even deduce that they are produced from what began as a collection of junk.
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He doesn't just stick a bunch of stuff together and call it art, either. No, he deconstructs the found elements, taking only minor parts or segments of the original forms he visualizes as sub-parts of the entire piece, then he joins them together in a way which often appears seamless.
In Which Nemo Gould, Artiste/Bricoleur, Takes On The Concept Of The Chopper Bicycle
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Nemo Gould is an artist who works within the field known as bricolage. Practitioners of this medium work with assembled found objects (Objets trouvés).
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This approach has always been fairly popular with many artists, and not just recently, either.
Marcel Duchamp (1887~1968) one of my personal art gods, extensively worked objet trouvé elements into his work.
Monsieur Duchamp didn't radically modify any element in the piece, which caused many problems in survival of the work. Almost since it was originally created, it has needed periodical
replication, since philistines have quite frequently tossed them out in the trash, starting with his own sister's tidying-up in 1915.
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The works of Mr. Gould don't have this problem, as it is impossible to confuse them with trash, since he heavily works into all the elements which go into them, to the extent that philistines might not even deduce that they are produced from what began as a collection of junk.
.
He doesn't just stick a bunch of stuff together and call it art, either. No, he deconstructs the found elements, taking only minor parts or segments of the original forms he visualizes as sub-parts of the entire piece, then he joins them together in a way which often appears seamless.
Who isn't familiar with his "Bicycle Wheel" of 1913, in which he mounted a bicycle wheel and fork to a white-painted draftsman's stool? He later termed this type of object an "Assisted Readymade", as it combined two or more found elements into one piece.
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While many artists use bricolage technique as a replacement for the lack of traditional skills required to create classic sculpture, this is not so for Nemo Gould. As one who was trained and has dabbled in sculpture for decades, I can say with assurance that bricolage, the way he does it, actually often requires more skill than just typically sculpting something from scratch. For example, his Re:Cycle 2006 (99" x 40" x 54") Chopper is made up mostly of aluminum elements. The more knowledgeable members of our audience can attest to the technical difficulty of working in that material, especially in the seamless way he deals with it.
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You are invited to study the above photo of his chopper, to see how many readymade elements you can recognize, but to get the full list, you absolutely have to go to an Instructables page on the project he has posted.
.
The other image shown above: Giant Squid 2006 (6'7" x 10'8" x 3'6") is only a close-up detail of the entire amazing piece. It and many other exquisite works may be seen in his Nemomatic Website's Gallery. While there, be sure to admire his
Quicksilver 2007 motor scooter. Despite a dearth of pedal power, it is possibly even more impressive than his Chopper bike.
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Jim Wilson
© 2006, Nemo Gould
© 2006, Nemo Gould
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