Antonio Marguet
Thu 01 Jan 1970 - Thu 01 Jan 1970
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Phoenix Gallery
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Free
Time
Gallery open from 10am - 5.30pm daily (excluding Sundays)
Thu 01 Jan 1970 - Thu 01 Jan 1970
Other Information
Phoenix Gallery
Price
Free
Time
Gallery open from 10am - 5.30pm daily (excluding Sundays)
Growing up between Syria and Spain, Antonio Marguet attributes a childhood fascination with sculpting plastic objects to the influence of his father’s bubblegum factory.
Now based in London, Marguet works at the boundary between sculpture, installation and photography, bringing together a range of interdisciplinary skills to create highly original, unconventional and often humorous objects. These are carefully photographed before the originals are destroyed the image ultimately becoming their only remaining record.
Marguet is fascinated by the use of props and surrogates. Images become objects, the real is concealed and the photograph becomes a mythological or fetishistic object.