Baptiste Debombourg’s creates incredibly detailed art that is only fully appreciated up close and personal. Using just a white wall as his canvass, Debombourg spent over 75 hours meticulously placing over 35,000 staples to create two pieces of staple art. The pair are titled Air Force One and Air Force Two. Baptiste descibes the work as follows:
The protagonist Icarus, the Mannerism of the Renaissance and the symbol of sublime power Air Force One -the plane of the American President- are the main points in this work. The combination of pathos, beauty and unnatural movement of Italian Mannerists concealing some aggression. Is it why this “Superman” flies straight down towards the earth? Here it’s used the tacker as a material and media, which plays with the contemporary agression and the profanized utility of the everyday life.
Turbo (way up at the top/left) is another one of Debombourg’s works that we were instantly drawn to. It resembles the damage you’d expect to find as the result of some severe flooding. Debombourg provides some strange context:
the turbo wave of the 80′s left its mark on the industry and on the whole cultural situation in Western Europe. It became a model of behaviour. The sound effect gives sensation of real physical power. To advance, the people from East Europe put some more “tuning” everywhere – for example in their folk music.
