Two Sculpture Installations by Gregor Gaida” ‘Attaboys’ and ‘Kind und Kreide 2′

Artist Gregor Gaida lives and works in Bremen, Germany. His figurative sculptures often depict aggressive, even violent people engaging with each  other under unknown circumstances, as with this pair of mischievous aluminum boys titled “Attaboys” installed in 2012. Gaida says that he often bases his figures off of images found in magazines and books.

“The found footage is often no more than an impulse that is no longer discernible in the further development of the shape. Analogous to photography, my objects are three-dimensional snapshots. The characters are frozen in movement and often cropped along imaginary image borders. I transport the fragmented character of photos into the third dimension. Simultaneously, when dealing with color and options of shaping, painterly characteristics appear. Thus, the life-sized special interventions are formally attributed to sculpture but are equally part of painterly and photographic categories.”-Gregor Gaida

“Attaboys” appears to be a reinterpretation of another set of sculptures from 2008, “Kind und Kreide 2”, where two similar boys are seen drawing a line with chalk.