Opening: Mike Bouchet "Relivare"

Name: Opening: Mike Bouchet "Relivare"
Start: 2025-09-05T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-09-05T22:00:00+02:00
Location: Gutleutstrasse 96, 60329 Frankfurt, Germany

Schedule

Fri Sep 05 2025 at 06:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Gutleutstrasse 96, 60329 Frankfurt, Germany | Frankfurt, HE

Mike Bouchet “Relivare”
Eröffnung/Opening: 5. September 18 - 22 Uhr / 6-10 pm
Ausstellungsdauer/exhibition dates: 6. Sept. - 15. Nov. 2025
In a radical act of artistic transformation, Mike Bouchet has destroyed his monumental sculpture Sir Walter Scott. The entire work was fed into an industrial machine that shreds wood into fibers for OSB panels. From this material, Bouchet has created his new Relivare wall reliefs, now on view at Galerie Parisa Kind.
The sculpture Sir Walter Scott (2010) was itself already a reincarnation. It was made from Watershed (2009), a 300-square-meter suburban home that was floated, sunk, and re-floated in the Arsenale lagoon at the Venice Biennale. The house was later cut apart and transformed into Sir Walter Scott, a large-scale sculpture exhibited at institutions including Schirn Kunsthalle in 2010 and subsequently acquired into a private collection.
Nearly fifteen years later, Bouchet has subjected this work to yet another metamorphosis. In an act of material violence, the sculpture was ground down into the coarse fibrous mass used for OSB. These fragments form the basis of the new reliefs. Applied carefully to fresh OSB panels, the material folds its own life cycle back onto itself. In these works, destruction and reformation are inseparable. Bouchet transforms obliteration into a provocative and sensual new material language—at once archaeological and futuristic, humorous and tragic, monumental and forensic. The Renaissance concept of relivare—to raise forms again from the same ground—provides the conceptual foundation. The result is an innovative body of work situated at the intersection of sculptural tradition, post-industrial materiality, and the cultural narratives embedded in our built environment.
image:
Mike Bouchet
“Noble House”, 2025 (Detail)
mixed media, Aluminiumrahmen
122 x 240 cm
courtesy of the artist and Galerie Parisa Kind,Frankfurt/M. @mikebouchetstudio @parisakind #mikebouchet #contemporaryart #parisakind @mrbouchet