MoART DC | UK

Solid materials are often imagined to be edgy, sharp and block-like. Sculptures in the traditional sense exhibit these traits quite commonly, yet the modern generation seeks to challenge the usual stereotypes by which artforms are too commonly judged by.



Meet Richard Dupont, an established painter and sculptor whose artworks have been exhibited across several institutions, such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Yale University art gallery.



Richard works with a multitude of materials and methodologies, distorting the traditionally known physique of a person by stretching, warping and rippling his media into original visual depictions of the human anatomy. Described as a post-digital and post-conceptual sculptor, he often uses digitized models of his own body as a base form rather than his actual physical body.



The sculptures he produces can sometimes be likened to how one may view a subject from above clear foreign substance, such as moving water or vertically shifted glass panels. They inherently manifest themselves in a very interesting, yet unexplainable style of expression that seems to break off drastically from the classic proportions set forth by nature and biology.