Multi-media artist, designer, and architect, Not Vital has gained particular notoriety for his sculptures. Composed of plaster, bronze, marble, silver, and gold, and encompassing organic and ready-made materials, his sculptures feature motifs of animals and the natural world. Abstracting these subjects, the artist generates mutations, distorts scale, and experiments with the relationships between form and meaning. Through the juxtapositions of tensions and materials, his works are constantly in a process of beeing transformed into something else, they are the vehicles of a language in and of itself.
Not Vital
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Not Vital, Bus station to Ouagadougou, 2009
Fiberglass and plaster
102 x 225 x 190 cm -
Not Vital, Unpleasant Object, 2008
Stainless steel
315 x 145 x 143 cm -
Not Vital, Plaster Hanging, 2010
Stainless steel and plaster
270 x 160 x 60 cm -
Not Vital, Naked Animal with Roof, 2010
Plaster and stainless steel plate
235 x 120 x 105 cm -
Not Vital, Double Lotus, 2010
Fiberglass and white varnish
408 x 60 x 60 cm -
Not Vital, White Tongue, 2009
Stainless steel and white varnish
200 x 54 x 58 cm -
Not Vital, 625, 2010
Fiberglass and soap
300 x 150 x 140 cm -
Not Vital, Nietszche, 2010
Bronze
57 x 70,5 x 57 cm -
Not Vital, Melting Dear, 2010
Bronze with wither patina
57 x 87 x 57 cm
Exhibitions
Selected press
- Kisa Lala, 'A Mind Safari with Stargazer Not Vital', THE HUFFINGTON POST, March 21st, 2012 — 0.0
- Reneau Olivier, 'Not Vital Artiste Et Batisseur D'Utopie', L'OPTIMUM, September, 2011 — 0.0
- 'Not Vital & Yeesokyung Rebirth and enigmatic sensuality', THE BRUSSELS TRIBUNE, février 2011 — 0.0
- 'Not Vital chez Almine Rech', ARTNEWS, December 2010 — 0.0
- Alan Artner, 'Seemingly an Outsider, Vital Transcends Borders', CHICAGO TRIBUNE, March 16th, 2006 — 0.0
- Michael Stoeber, 'Not Vital - Being and Building', SCULPTURE MAGAZINE, January/February 2006 — 0.0
- Kimberly Bradley, 'Quiet Vitality', ARTNET, May 2004 — 0.0
- Ken Johnson, 'Not Vital', THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 16th, 2004 — 0.0