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Thomas Houseago

09.23.11 - 10.16.11
Exhibition — Cour de la Drac

Thomas Houseago
Giant Figure (Cyclops), 2011

Courtesy of the artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
Credit : Le Printemps de Septembre-à Toulouse

 

Thomas Houseago

Giant Figure (Cyclops), 2011

Courtesy of the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels

Credit : Le Printemps de Septembre-à Toulouse
 

Thomas Houseago
Quake Mask, 2008

Musée les Augustins
Courtesy of the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
Credit : Le Printemps de Septembre-à Toulouse

 

Thomas Houseago
Quake Mask, 2008
Courtesy of the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
Credit : Le Printemps de Septembre-à Toulouse

 

Thomas Houseago
Portrait Double-Sided, 2009

Musée les Augustins
Courtesy of the artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
Credit : Le Printemps de Septembre-à Toulouse

 

 Thomas Houseago
Giant Figure (Cyclops), 2011
Courtesy of the artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussells 
Photo : Le Printemps de Septembre-à Toulouse

Thomas Houseago
Vue d'ensemble, 2011

Musée les Augustins
Courtesy of the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels 
Photo : Le Printemps de Septembre-à Toulouse
 

Thomas Houseago
Quake Mask, 2008
Courtesy the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels Photography, Fredrik Nilsen, Los Angeles
 

Born 1972 in Leeds (United-Kingdom), he lives and works in Los Angeles.

 

Thomas Houseago's sculptures invest with their primal energy the spaces for which he designs them, show their textures and reveal their creative process – engraving, molding, drips, establishing an immediate dialogue with the spectators. Trained at Martin's School of Art in London and at the “Ateliers” in Amsterdam, the artist is a robust sculptor, like his often monumental productions in wood, bronze and plaster, powerful and expressive portraits of figures with shapes. and unexpected postures. Radical in his conservatism, the artist turns our contemporary notions of sculpture upside down with works that embrace both the history and the immediacy of his hand.
     For Le Printemps de septembre 2011, he produced several new pieces intended for several places in Toulouse: a series of sculptures echoing the gargoyles in the cloister of the Musée des Augustins, and Giant Figure (Cyclop), a great totemic figure for the courtyard of DRAC Occitanie, today visible on the alleys Jules Guesdes in front of the Sorano Theater.

 

Born in 1972 in Leeds, Thomas Houseago lives and works in Los Angeles (United States). A major figure on the international art scene, his work has been exhibited at the Grand Palais (Paris, 2017), at the National Gallery of Canada (Montreal, 2017), at the Rockefeller Center Plaza, New York (2015), at the Galleria Borghese (Rome, 2013), at Modern Art Oxford (2010), at MoCA in Los Angeles (2010), at Contemporary Fine Arts (Berlin, 2009), at the Modern Institute (Glasgow, 2007) or at the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (Ghent, 2003). His work was included in the Whitney Biennale in 2010. He also collaborated with the New York Public Art Fund on two public sculptures: Statuesque (2010) and Masks (Pentagon) (2015).

A Le Printemps de septembre 2011 production in the main courtyard of the Hôtel Saint-Jean, DRAC Occitanie. The work was subsequently acquired by the Tisséo network as part of its policy of commissioning works for the tram line.