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Composizione, 2018

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Each ceramic work was hand-made by Deshayes in a town in the province of Venice that specialises in the production of ornamental platters: Bacchanal vessels that are exuberantly clad with dripping fruit, vegetables, and fish. Composizione features an arrangement of octopus tentacles laid out on a piece of cloth. A cross between a chef's chopping board, Assyrian relief, musical score, and 'Shui-mo' drawing.

The edition is part of an ongoing series by Deshayes featuring octopus as a motif to explore the materiality of malleability, slipperiness, desire, petroleum extraction and the 'below-surface'.

Courtesy of Nottingham Contemporary

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Though there are never any organic forms in a sculpture by Nicolas Deshayes, life is continually implied by his combinations of manmade forms with designs that resemble a human presence. The anodized aluminum and vacuum-molded plastic that Deshayes typically uses directly contrast the titles of his works (which usually refer to something natural), and yet it is possible to see his sculpture as having been touched by something living. Drawing influence from Eva Hesse and Carl Andre, Deshayes allows industrial materials to take on a life of their own, suggesting that there is always something human beneath the surfaces of everyday materials.

The artist seeks the “threshold between liquid and solid,” reflecting upon the elbow grease of his manual labor with these cool, mass-produced items. In using these unnatural items, the audience is prompted to consider how the corporeal desires and progress of human beings actually has made the natural world more destructible, dirtier, and even excessively wasteful.

Deshayes has exhibited at institutions including Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Scotland, Tate St. Ives, United Kingdom, Fridericianum, Kassel, David Roberts Foundation, London, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Saatchi Gallery, London, and Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom, among others. He has shown in international galleries since 2006.

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