Edouard Malingue Gallery is pleased to present a public installation by Eric Baudart as part of the curated ArtReview Asia ‘Xiàn Chǎng’ section.

Returning to the West Bund is ‘Atmosphère’ (2016), an evolution from his running series bearing the same title in which he places various types of operating ventilators in a clear aquarium filled with yellow canola oil, ‘Atmosphère’ takes on a larger than life form so that the viewer’s interaction with the artwork is shifted from one of peering to that of being physically absorbed. Absurd, humorous and mildly perturbing, the apparatus operates, moving in a cyclical motion against the thick substance, creating slow, citrine ripples. The sculpture series takes inspiration from a conversation between Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Léger and Constantin Brancusi, when Duchamp, hinting to the perfection of natural simplicity, announced ‘Painting is dead. Who could make something better than this propeller? Could you?’

Furthermore, ‘Cubikron 3.3’ (2017) will be presented. Standing outdoors and composed of metallic bedsprings arranged to form a cuboidal structure, Cubikron 3.3 toys with the ordinary object’s skeletal properties: placed one in front of the either, the coils weave an intricate visual maze of dark silver juxtapositions. Over a period of time, as weather takes it toll, the sculpture shifts, changing in hues to the impact of its surroundings.