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Elmgreen & Dragset — Hard Rain
Elmgreen & Dragset

Hard Rain

2024

This monumental pair of rubber boots stands as a striking examination of utility and form. Cast in bronze with a rich green patina, the boots retain the functional aesthetic of their everyday counterparts, complete with drainage holes punctuating their surfaces. The work exemplifies the Danish duo's practice of elevating banal objects into meditative sculptural statements, invoking both the mundane and the absurd. By translating a humble protective garment into precious metal, the artists interrogate value, labor, and the threshold between art and ordinary life. The boots' imposing scale and refined materiality suggest both the monumental and the ironic.

Medium
Bronze, Patina
Overall
Edition
5 of 5
Location
Victoria Miro Gallery, London

Notes

Victoria Miro, Frieze New York 2026, Booth A07, May 13–17, 2026.

For Sale — €40000

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Elmgreen & Dragset, Hard Rain, 2024

This monumental pair of rubber boots stands as a striking examination of utility and form. Cast in bronze with a rich green patina, the boots retain the functional aesthetic of their everyday counterparts, complete with drainage holes punctuating their surfaces. The work exemplifies the Danish duo's practice of elevating banal objects into meditative sculptural statements, invoking both the mundane and the absurd. By translating a humble protective garment into precious metal, the artists interrogate value, labor, and the threshold between art and ordinary life. The boots' imposing scale and refined materiality suggest both the monumental and the ironic.

Medium
Bronze, Patina
Dimensions
overall: 50 x 30 x 30 cm
Year
2024
Edition
of 5
Seen at
Victoria Miro Gallery, United Kingdom

Related themes

Bronze, Utility Reimagined, Visual Poetry, Green Patina, Museum Quality, Institutional Critique, Danish Artists, Functional Form, Monumentality, Found Object, Sculpture, Conceptual Art, Scale, Contemporary Sculpture, Everyday Objects, Contemporary Art, Object Based Art, Material Transformation, Irony, Footwear

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