At the core of Bastien Aubry’s practice is the construction of compelling environments that combine craft and design to create art. At once humorous and precarious, Aubry’s work is motivated by the poetry of failure and the beauty found in the less-than-perfect, and much of his sculptural practice features misshapen objects, alienated in a playful and ironic way. Out of Shape takes this concept further in the two-dimensional space of drawing. Mixing design, art history, pop culture, and comics, Aubry fills the pages with caricatures, speech balloons, captions, misshapen forms, and squiggly lines – a humorous and thought-provoking deep dive into the artist’s own mind.
104 pages, 21 x 30 cm, softcover, Rollo Press (Zurich).