Didier Vermeiren
°1951 Brussels, Belgium
For close on four decades Didier Vermeiren has been working on a monumental body of work. The artist rose to international fame in the '80s and early '90s with work that questioned the fundamental aspects of the medium of sculpture. Initially his sculptures fell into two groups, Pedestals and Chariots, which share the plinth, as a perceptual and institutional element of analyses. Through repetition, reversal, doubling and inversion, the plinth is incorporated and elevated to a sculptural level: plinth on plinth, plinth becomes sculpture, mould becomes sculpture, replica becomes original, negative becomes positive, etc. These strategies are subsequently expanded to various means of production, transport and presentation with the last series Solides plastiques and Solides géométriques.
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Etude pour La Pierre #1
2007
bois patiné, bois
189,5 X 122 X 122 cm
Courtesy Galerie Greta Meert
Photorelief
2009
Atelier 2001
Tirage argentique, bois
57,4 x 38,9 x 28 cm
Courtesy Galerie Greta Meert
Sculpture, 1982
1982
Plâtre
223 X 26,5 X 26,5 cm
Plâtre 1990, socle du musée Rodin, Meudon, supportant une étude pour le monument à Balzac, plâtre 1893
1990
Plâtre
23,5 X 89,5 X 89,5 cm
Solide géometrique #11
2006
Aluminium, bois peint
161 X 108,5 X 108,5 cm
Courtesy Galerie Greta Meert
La Maison #1
2007
Plâtre, bois peint, bois, plastique recyclé
195,5 X 138 X 138 cm
Courtesy Galerie Greta Meert
La Maison #2
2009
Plâtre, bois peint, bois
221 X 198 X 198 cm
Solide géometrique #2
2003
Terre cuite émaillé, bois peint
160,2 X 108,5 X 108,5 cm
Solide géométrique #14
2010
Aluminium, bois peint
Etude pour l'urne #1
2007
Plâtre, bois peint
214,5 X 124,5 X 124,5 cm
Courtesy Galerie Greta Meert
Musée Rodin, Meudon
1990
Tirage argentique
53 x 43 cm
Courtesy Galerie Greta Meert
Monument, 2006
2006
Tirage argentique
59 x 51 cm
Courtesy Galery Greta Meert
Musée Rodin, Meudon
1990
Tirage argentique
53 x 43 cm
Courtesy Galerie Greta Meert
Etude pour un monument
1997
Encre sur photographie
24 x 31 cm
Courtesy Galerie Greta Meert
Solide géométrique #5
2004
Terre cuite émaillé, bois peint
180,7 X 123,9 X 123,9 cm
Lenticular Photograph, Los Angeles Studio March 2007
2007
Photograph
dyptique
50,7 x 61,6 x 10,2 cm
Ed. of 15
Courtesy Galerie Greta Meert
Photorelief, Atelier 1982
1982
Tirage argentique
58 x 44,6 x 28 cm
Courtesy Galerie Greta Meert
Sans titre
1999
Fer, fibre de verre
169 X 81 X 88 cm
Photorelief
2005
Atelier 1982
Tirage argentique, bois
57,4 x 38,9 x 28 cm
Courtesy Galerie Greta Meert
