LE DINER DE GULLIVER BY LILIAN BOURGEAT

Prolongation of the exhibition until May 13, 2013 inclusive.

Lilian Bourgeat is born in 1970 in Saint Claude France. He works and leave in Dijon, France.

“Lilian Bourgeat’s art is phonily likeable. It gives you the impression of being attractive, accommodating, or, equally, insignificant, depending on what you believe about art, and depending, too, on the criteria on which you think you can rely to appraise artworks; and his art puts you off your stride. The immediate seductiveness brought about by the exhibition of giant objects, perfectly reproduced in their forms and materials, and the aspect of “funny art for 3 to 103 year olds”, are merely traps. Bourgeat does not just create three-dimensional reproductions of objects on a magnified scale : he creates an arrangement. An arrangement that encompasses the spectator and does without him. An ambivalent arrangement, because the piece desperately needs spectators if it is to work. Photographed on their own, most of his sculptures are of little or no interest ; you think you might identify some commonplace object in them, and if you do not have any indication about their dimensions, their perfect reproduction renders them meaningless and insignificant. But if someone is photographed beside a sculpture, then everything changes : not only is the sculpture’s size revealed, but above all the human figures next to or near it appear ridiculous.”