Jedediah Caesar - Contemporary Artists

Helium Brick (detail)

Helium Brick (detail) The Saatchi Gallery
 

Jedediah Caesar

Helium Brick (detail)

2008
Polyester resin, polystyrene, pigment, wood

132.1 x 132.1 x 254 cm

Caesar’s Helium Brick cleverly conceives the act of making as a process of decay. The large block structure is made from Styrofoam which was then coated with Caesar’s trademark
coloured resin. Reminiscent of Gustav Metzger’s Auto-Destructive art, the two chemically incongruous materials reacted, and the Styrofoam was eaten away, creating an strange stucco-like surface. Mounted on shipping crates Helium Brick looms with alien presence, its texture suggesting something biological and unnatural, framing his sculpture as a specimen of dubious origin.
 
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