Stapled Art

on Architecture •February 22nd•View Comments

The problem with modern art is that most of it is just utter rubbish. Today, however, the French have come through to prove us wrong. The protagonist in the art is Icarus, a character in Greek mythology known commonly for his attempt to escape Crete by flight, which ends in a fall to his death. The genius behind such wonderful modern art is Baptiste Debombourg. He makes use of 35,000 staples to complete the piece which is presented on a wall. The piece stands at 2.7M by 2.5M. According to the artist the piece took roughly seventy-five hours to complete.

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  • Donza
    simply amazing.
  • Danica
    holy freaking crap that is amazing!!
  • Blondee !
    Hahhaa .. Tis must've been lieek hard .. I would've thought it would take lieek a week but 75 hours .. Wow .. Its really goood .. I cant even draw it .. lol :P
  • Emily Smith
    While I like this artwork and I think it's cool, it must be said that only the method here is modern. The figure depicted with staples here was taken from a Netherlandish engraving by Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617), after a painting by Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem (1562 - 1638). The engraving is from a 1558 series entitled The Four Disgracers, and this figure here is not Icarus, but Phaeton - a similar character from Greek legend who tried to drive Apollo's chariot across the sky, and fell to the ground in flames (the series of engravings depicts heroes whose downfall was hubris - Icarus is another engraving in the series).
    Baptiste Debombourg may be ingenious, but he's clearly no genius.
  • smitty_hyimlick
    "i'm almost done, just the hand to go... damn the stapler jammed! :/"
  • Emily Smith
    This is a copy of a Netherlandish engraving by Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617), after a painting by Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem (1562–1638), from a 1588 series entitled The Four Disgracers. The protagonist in this work is not in fact Icarus but Phaëton - but the story is similar: all of the four works in this series depict heroes whose downfall was hubris. Phaeton was the son of Apollo and wanted to have a go at driving the Chariot of the Sun across the sky like his father; he was not strong enough to control it and the Sun almost crashed into the Earth, forcing Zeus to destroy the Chariot with a thunderbolt to save the world from burning up - Phaeton fell from the flaming wreckage and died.
    You can look up the series of engravings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Online. Here's a nice big version of Goltzius' Fall of Phaeton on wikipedia:
    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phaeton-...
    (You can see the destroyed chariot and horses falling to earth in the background.)

    Honestly I think this stapled work is cool - bit of fun - but give credit where credit's due, people. Only the method is modern; the design is late Renaissance.
  • shawna sissel
    thats vary cool with what the person did with the staples.
  • Joey
    I found this very interesting. I love the creativity,
  • Korwegian
    that is Wonduhfull
  • I can´t agree with the statement that most of modern art is "just utter rubbish"... Anyway, regarding the subject of this post, it´s allways great and quite inspiring to see people find new ways and new mediums for their art.
  • awesome
  • allison
    wow thats amazing lol its awesome how many ways ppl come up with to create art :)
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