Richard Dupont

For our 99th episode, we visit the Manhattan studio of Richard Dupont who makes arresting figurative work. His sculptures initially caught our eye when they made an appearance in our very first video at Art Basel and now Dupont's busy with his large-scale installation, "Terminal Stage," due to open at the Lever House next month. In this video he unmolds one of his distorted replicas of his body that he made using military scans, walking us through his process and some of the ideas that inform his work.

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• Art
• Sculpture
• Artists
• Richard DuPont
• New York

[qcq101]

Why is there an uproar about this? There is absolutely nothing sexual about Dupont's sculptures. This art is more about shape and change than nudity. Are we really that afraid of our bodies that we find something like this so threatening? You see more overt sexuality on prime time network TV. At least the artist was trying to create something thought-provoking that requires actual knowledge and skill. Anyone can produce a reality TV show about obnoxious people.

[Mitsukosoumathedeadl]

Well obviously there are going to be people who don't appreciate this, but I like a idea of taking one person's image and warping the way it looks. It's not inappropriate, it's his form of art, and there are worse things in art history than this.

[sickasso72]

so he doesnt really sculpt. He uses technologies and assembles everything. or maybe I'm missing something

[athenianboy]

It is ironic that the onus is on the defender of nudity instead of on those who for no other reason than tradition oppose it. Nudity is natural, opposition to it is really kind of crazy. No matter how many people subscribe to "covering" the body, it is still crazy.

[IcyBikez]

i honestly wanna go crazy with a ninja sword on those things

[HenhousetheRed]

Repetition is an important aspect of all art.

[boardluva108]

Seems sort of vain, doesn't it? He just casts his own form over on over again...

[conroe4]

I wonder if he's just going to toss those away after he's done. I'd like to have one..it'd make an awesome plinking target.

[tambor74]

genial...

[jasonnazworth]

i'm not all into art, ... but that was actually very educational ! ... that shit pwnds !