Christophe Touzot (né en 1968) Lot n° 145

Prototype 1 1998 Wood, fiberglass, epoxy resin, metal and naturalized paws Unique piece H. 400 cm W. 187 cm D. 100 cm Provenance: > Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris > Collection of Monsieur A., Nice Exhibitions: > Donjon de Vez, "Machins-Machines", 1999 Christophe Touzot has always appropriated reality and its objects to question their obvious form and function. His works most often draw on the vocabulary of architecture (street furniture) and design (vehicles), which he hijacks either through a change or a change of oversized scale (shelters, 1995, tablet-1993), or through the hybridization of animal and material. --- Christophe Touzot has always made reality and its objects his own, questioning the obviousness of form and function. His works most often draw on the vocabulary of architecture (street furniture) and design (vehicles), which he hijacks either by changing them to an oversized scale (shelters, 1995, tablet-1993), or by hybridizing the animal and the material.