Art: BL67 creates giant fascinating artworks out of tiny white and orange price tags
If like me you spent a large chunk of your teenage Saturdays sticking price tags to near worthless objects armed with nothing but a price-gun and a roll of orange stickers, you’ll feel a warm wave of nostalgia at seeing BL76’s work. The mysteriously named French artist creates large-scale artworks with nothing but the tiny labels.
Abstract an idea though that may seem, the resulting works are strangely rewarding; large impressive patterns in every formation conceivable, with each work named after the amount of figurative money used to create it, for example, 8545 Euros. The concept has something jokey about it, but the detail and execution seem to outweigh the sense of parody here, resulting in a series of artworks which add a new perspective to the already heated debate about the value of conceptual art.
BL67: 1502 Euros
BL67: 7370 Euros
BL67: Close-Up of 2163 Euros
BL67: 18470 Euros
BL67: 2535 Euros
BL67: Mise en Situation, 7764 Euros
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Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.