FAILE (Americain, Canadien, fondé en 1999) Lot n° 40
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FAILE (American, Canadian, founded in 1999)
Secret heartbreak 86
Acrylic and silkscreen ink on wooden box
hinged wooden box
Acrylic and silkscreen ink containing 24 six-sided
wooden cubes (3.8 × 3.8 cm)
Acrylic and silkscreen ink on custom on hinged
wooden box
28 × 20 × 2 cm - 11 × 7.8 × 0.7 in
In 2009 - 2010, Faile continued to apply two-dimensional imagery to three-dimensional form, further developing the sense of interactivity and play in their work. These included digital games and a pop-up arcade, but the real breakthrough was a series of wooden puzzle boxes, painted on the outside and on a grid of small cubes on the
inside. These "blocks" allowed FAILE to work on six surfaces and, more importantly, invited turning over and recombining in abstract compositions. This manual "remixing" in the puzzle boxes allowed FAILE to approach painting and his own image archive with a new perspective in the years that followed.
Excerpt: FAILE: Works on wood: Process, Paintings and
sculpture, Gestalten, 2014, p. 108
In 2009 - 2010 Faile continued to apply twodimensional imagery to three-dimensional form, further developing a sense of inter-activity and play in their work. This included digital games and a pop-up arcade, but the real breakthrough was a series of wooden puzzle boxes - painted on the outside and on a grid of small cubes within. These "blocks" allowed FAILE to work on six surfaces and, more importantly, invited flipping and recombination into abstract compositions. Such manual "remixing" in the puzzle boxes helped FAILE to approach painting and their own archive of images with a new perspective in the years that followed
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