
Trip and go or Piero is wandering here and there, reading out lines of Pinocchio, as Oskar dances down stairways
2014
This intricate three-dimensional construction by Marcel Dzama unfolds like a stage set caught mid-performance, its cast of handcrafted figures suspended between folklore, theater, and waking dream. Working across cardboard, tape, acrylic, gouache, wood, paper mache, porcelain, and graphite, Dzama assembles a compact yet richly layered world measuring 37 by 100 by 25 centimeters, in which the physical intimacy of the work rewards prolonged, close attention. The title itself is a narrative in miniature, invoking Piero wandering and reciting lines from Pinocchio while Oskar dances down stairways, a collision of literary and cinematic reference that charges the piece with a sense of perpetual, slightly melancholic motion. These are not simply named characters but archetypes drawn from Dzama's longstanding visual mythology, figures caught in rituals whose rules remain tantalizingly obscure. Dzama, the Winnipeg-born artist long based in New York and closely associated with the Raymond Pettibon-inflected tradition of drawing as storytelling, has built a body of work recognized for its deadpan theatricality and its capacity to hold violence, tenderness, and absurdist humor in uneasy equilibrium. This sculpture, dated 2014, sits squarely within a period during which Dzama was expanding his practice into dioramic and theatrical constructions that function as frozen films, each one dense with symbolic incident. Signed by the artist and currently presented through Sies + Höke, the work offers collectors a rare opportunity to acquire a piece that is not only visually distinctive but intellectually sustained, carrying Dzama's signature blend of the sinister and the playful into fully sculptural, inhabitable form.
- Medium
- Cardboard, tape, acrylic, gouache, wood, paper mache, porcelain and graphite
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Sies + HökeView on map
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