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Richard Hughes
Leslie's in the Shit with Dennis
The work of British sculptor Richard Hughes begins where the lifecycles of most commodities end: in piles of rubbish (“My formative years,” he has said, “were spent in a car park.”). After cruising abandoned trash and street detritus, he typically casts his finds in fiberglass. But in the case of this implicitly narrative work, Hughes has employed the most elevated of all sculptural mediums, marble, staging a vivid contrast between the found source material and the finished work.
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Artist
Richard Hughes
Material
Marble
Contributing Gallery
Anton Kern Gallery
Date
2007
Dimensions
39 in × 34 in × 9 in
99.06 cm × 86.36 cm × 22.86 cm
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Image credit: Courtesy of Anton Kern Gallery
Leslie's in the Shit with Dennis, 2007
39 in × 34 in × 9 in
Marble
Anton Kern Gallery
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The work of British sculptor Richard Hughes begins where the lifecycles of most commodities end: in piles of rubbish (“My formative years,” he has said, “were spent in a car park.”). After cruising abandoned trash and street detritus, he typically casts his finds in fiberglass. But in the case of this implicitly narrative work, Hughes has employed the most elevated of all sculptural mediums, marble, staging a vivid contrast between the found source material and the finished work.