Ex Hale Wallpiece Marble Mosaik

wall sculpture
2025

size (cm) 200 x 90 x 20
(inch) 78.7 x 35 x 8

Green Onyx (PK)

unique in shape signed

 

The tradition of mosaics dates back to classical antiquity. In them, an image, usually a tableau, is only revealed by the assembly of many individual pieces. But in his idiosyncratic approach to this technique, Ben Storms deliberately ignores any pictorial ambition; rather, the image he evokes is an origin, a reference to the raw state of the source material.

As such, the mosaic becomes an encounter, or rather a reunion, in which fragmentation is not so much denounced as acknowledged, visually referencing the whole from which the particles were extracted.

Complementing his In Hale series, this ornamental wall sculpture continues a path that questions notions of weight and volume. By choosing not a single block of onyx marble to then carve out the volume, but a compilation of tiny stone particles, this questioning takes on an additional dimension, playing with our perception of large and small, and our appreciation of a tiny tile and where it comes from. Namely, that it comes from a stone that also reflects the rock, even the mountain, from which it was quarried.

unique in shape

 
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