Jean Luc Cornec - Telephone Sheep
Art Crushing on Jean Luc Cornec who combined playful elements and objects to create ‘Telephone Sheep 🐑’ and has since found his art taking on new meaning everything it’s exhibited.
“At first sight the grey telephones – today out of use – don’t have anything to do with the head of a sheep. I cannot say when and how the association came up to me – it only works in the combination of the telephone with the cables as wool, the earphones as feet and the individualistic expressions of the different sheep. Even if I was afraid of a too humorous aspect of my first idea I continued shaping it and in the end, I was surprised when during the artistic process new options raised: I had for example never thought that the ringing of the phones reminded of the “baa” of the sheep.
When Dolly was born in 1996, the work was charged with another meaning – in some way the work has been “reloaded” on different levels. It became a comment on the relation between original and copy. When I realized that the film “Blade Runner“ was based on the novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?“ by Philipp K. Dick, the installation became in some way the materialization of the ecological question. With the background of the NSA scandal, the accent is put on communication and interconnectedness...”
