Thomas Houseago is a renowned and prolific sculptor and painter. With his raw and expressive portraits of characters in unexpected shapes and postures (gaunt faces, angular bodies, flayed skeletons…) the artist presents figures that are powerful yet fragile, and somewhere between the abstract and figurative.
For materials, he combines less traditional ones – like steel rods, concrete or burlap – with the more conventional stuff of sculpture.
L’Homme pressé (“man in a hurry”) represents a giant, 5-metre (16 ft.) hybrid of man, monster, and robot that walks with a determined gait, whose irresistible forward movement seems to stem from its incompleteness.
Thomas Houseago was born in 1972, in Leeds (England). He lives and works in Los Angeles (USA). He is represented by the Gagosian galleries (New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Geneva, Basel, Rome, Athens, Hong Kong) and Xavier Hufkens (Brussels).
THOMAS HOUSEAGO, L’HOMME PRESSÉ, 2010-2011, BRONZE ON STEEL, 513 X 157 X 381 CM, PINAULT COLLECTION.
THANKS TO THE PINAULT COLLECTION.
