Visual Arts
Raymond Dupuis

This sign-exploring machine (Machine à explorer les signes) is a fanciful sculpture made of pieces of wood found here and there and a great many scraps of painted metal. The sculpture devises its own means of elaboration. A long, narrow strip, decorated with Hopi and Navajo drawings, is fed into one of the ends of the machine. Then, at the opposite end, the machine finishes off a contemporary collage. It is the artist's ironic message about appropriation processes that are so common in contemporary art.

Machine à explorer les signes
Assemblage in three parts, wood, metal and collage on cardboard, 2006
132.5 x 45 x 37cm
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Raymond Dupuis First Nations Written Heritage