
Hilux Box
2014
"Hilux Box" by Matias Faldbakken is a work created with ink on cardboard that engages with everyday industrial materials and commercial culture. The artist's choice to work on cardboard, a utilitarian substrate, reflects his broader practice of elevating banal objects and surfaces found in urban environments into aesthetic consideration. By rendering a Toyota Hilux truck (a ubiquitous utility vehicle) through ink drawing on this humble material, Faldbakken creates a conceptual dialogue between the artwork's formal qualities and the mass produced, functional items that populate contemporary life.
- Medium
- ink on cardboard
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Modern & Contemporary Art: Online Auction, London
March 4, 2025
Lot 107
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Artists in conversation

Mike Kelley
American · b. 1954

Kelley similarly elevated overlooked, humble materials like found objects and discarded items into conceptual art, engaging with commodity culture and the aesthetics of the banal in ways that parallel Faldbakken's use of cardboard as a deliberate aesthetic and cultural statement.

Danh Vo
Vietnamese Danish · b. 1975

Vo works with found industrial and commercial materials to create austere, conceptually charged pieces that question value and meaning, sharing Faldbakken's interest in elevating utilitarian objects and surfaces into critical dialogues about contemporary culture.

Niele Toroni
Swiss · b. 1937

Toroni applies ink marks to unconventional surfaces including cardboard with a deliberately minimal and repetitive approach, creating a similar tension between humble substrate and deliberate artistic gesture that defines Faldbakken's ink on cardboard practice.
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