Oculus Giraffa - Lego, 2025
BrickBoardBuilder  

Painting : aluminium · 120 x 80 x 6 cm 47.2 x 31.5 x 2.4 inch

£4,248 4 248 £GB
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Painting : Unique artwork

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Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed

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Description

The title says it plainly: oculus, the eye. That is the subject, and everything else exists only to lead you to it. The work doesn't show a giraffe, it shows a gaze: that of an animal framed so close that you no longer see the animal, only the skin, the lashes, the bones beneath the coat, and that dark pupil staring back at the viewer.

This is the densest piece in the series. No flat areas, no place to rest: the entire surface is a swarm of tiny LEGO® bricks (studs, one- and two-stud plates, technical fragments) assembled by the thousands. The coat reads as pure pointillism: ochres, tawnies, burnt earths, deep browns, lifted by touches of lavender, turquoise, pink and acid green that have no reason to be there and yet give the color all its vibration. Seen from afar, the tawny is perfectly right. Seen up close, it is impossible.

On the left, night. A whole section of the piece tips into near-total black, where all you can make out are reliefs, volumes, pieces catching a raking light. This darkness hides nothing: it pushes. It drives the gaze to the right, toward the warmth, toward the eye. It is a seesaw of a composition, where shadow works as hard as color.

Pointillism is not a figure of speech here, it is the method. By reducing the module to its smallest unit, Brick Board Builder returns to the gesture of the painters who laid down color in dots without ever mixing it, leaving it to the viewer's eye to do the blending. Each brick is a dab of paint, each row a hesitation, and the image only forms at a distance.

Not a single brick was placed according to a plan. Every piece was chosen by hand from a stock of second-hand LEGO® bricks that arrived in bulk from all over France and were sorted one by one, some of them sourced through charitable reuse thanks to the non-profit Rejoué. Pieces with no story, given one again. With a grid this fine, the number of pieces handled runs into the tens of thousands: this work can never be remade identically.

No print, no reproduction, no artificial intelligence. A work that is built, numbered, signed on the back and delivered with its certificate of authenticity.

BrickBoardBuilder, Oculus Giraffa - Lego
France  • 1973
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Presentation

The art of pixel pop.

“I deal with the constraints of brick as others deal with painting."

Gregory, aka BBB, doesn't paint: he builds. Brick by brick, pixel by pixel, he assembles art with patience, precision... and a certain playfulness.

Trained in interior architecture and technical drawing, he diverts LEGO – a universal, almost childlike material – to create a unique, vibrant, unexpected visual language.

His works combine technical rigor, subtle narrative, and nods to pop culture. From afar, a familiar image. Up close, a complex world. What he creates are slow surprises. Each painting reveals itself in two stages: first the obvious, then the strangeness, the detail, the hidden emotion.

It's an art of patience and pixels, a meticulous construction game that thwarts our perception. BBB revisits icons of contemporary visual culture—mythical characters, musical figures, popular heroes—and slips into them his own grammar, made of rhythm, silence, and graphic tension. He doesn't play with LEGO. He plays with complexity. With our gaze. With the pleasure of revealing the unexpected.

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