#aggravure

Aggravure by Baptiste Debombourg

Massive murals centered on body movement depicting the fall of Phaeton, all created with the uncommon shimmering medium of staples. Titled ‘Aggravure’ by artist Baptiste Debombourg . The images are based on The Four Disgracers (1588). The project took 75 hours to complete, the closer you look the more you understand why. See the series below:

AGGRAVURE è un progetto dell’artista francese Baptiste Debombourg, realizzato utilizzando centinai di punti metallici.

In all the years I'd stapled posters on my wall, I never gave it a second thought, let alone consider it an art form. But an artist has painstakingly created a series of beautiful murals made from nothing but staples tacked onto a wall. The pictures you’re looking at are the works of French artist Baptiste Debombourg, and a part of  a collection named Aggravure. His last artwork, Aggravure III, took him 340 hours to complete and consists of over half a million staples.

The collection itself is inspired by engravers of the Renaissance period, Jan Harmensz, Cherubino Alberti and Hendrick Goltzius. It’s amazing what an artist can do with a boring, everyday, office supply like the staple. But hey, if people can make art out of packing tape, maybe staple-art is not so surprising after all.