Guillaume Cabantous
Paris, France
1977
The works of Guillaume Cabantous are made with car windshields, as iconic consumer objects; They present a dramatic effect present in the way the materials are used, transforming the rigid into flexible, sculpting the glass by hitting it, breaking it and generating tensions with scaffolding, iron or aged wooden beams. The poverty of the materials reminds us of Arte Povera but loaded with speed, in an updated context, contemporized after a carefully studied gesture, the result of rigorous work that, however, seems spontaneous, working with the accident, from its movement or its nature to its reactions, nothing is left to chance, it plays with the material to confuse us in an illusion of lightness and flexibility.
Available artworks
2003
Guillaume Cabantous
Variable measurements
parabrisas, acero y hierro
2012
Guillaume Cabantous
Variable measurements
manipulated windshield glass and straps
2022
Guillaume Cabantous
155 x 50 x 41 cm
windshield, crayons, wooden base
2022
Guillaume Cabantous
Variable measurements
windshield, ropes, steel fixings
2017
Guillaume Cabantous
150 x 100 x 50 cm
x3 windshield, metal and black body paint
2010
Guillaume Cabantous
160 x 80 x 41 cm
windshield, metal, wooden base