France
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2020
Ironic. Iconic. Chic. Seriously?
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Bob Tonic explores contemporary popular culture through sculpture, image and visual concepts.
Drawing from the collective imagery of advertising, fashion, luxury, street culture and art history, he takes familiar symbols and shifts their meaning through humour, contradiction and unexpected associations.
His work plays with what we think we already know. Icons are displaced, enlarged, polished, stripped back or confronted with another visual language. Behind an immediately accessible aesthetic lies a recurring question about desire, status, freedom and the images that shape our lives.
Colour, material and finish are central to his practice. From highly polished surfaces to radical monochromes and vivid fluorescent tones, each work is conceived as a strong visual object — seductive at first sight, but rarely as innocent as it appears.
Bob Tonic develops a universe somewhere between Pop Art and contemporary sculpture, without nostalgia and without taking either art or himself too seriously.
Ironic. Iconic. Chic.
And when something seems impossible?
Seriously?
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Sculpture . 120 x 30 x 60 cm Sculpture . 47.2 x 11.8 x 23.6 inch
$12,301 $10,825
Sculpture . 120 x 40 x 55 cm Sculpture . 47.2 x 15.7 x 21.7 inch
$16,988 $14,949
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