Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel Sculptures in the Round

Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel: Sculptures in the Round is an artist’s book published on the occasion of the duo’s exhibition at the Secession in Vienna in 2021.

Conceived and written by the artists themselves, the publication extends their sculptural practice into book form rather than simply documenting the exhibition.

Dewar and Gicquel are known for works that combine traditional craft techniques, precise material handling, and a deliberately disconcerting sense of scale and subject matter. Their sculptures often bring together the handmade, the decorative, the bodily, and the absurd, questioning hierarchies between fine art, craft, ornament, and everyday objects.

In Sculptures in the Round, the book becomes a space in which their objects, materials, and forms can be encountered through sequence, image, and text. The publication reflects the artists’ interest in sculpture as something physical, frontal, tactile, and strangely present, while also translating these qualities into the rhythm of pages. With its sewn binding, softcover, and dust jacket, the book is carefully produced and closely connected to the material concerns of the work itself.

Published by Secession in an edition of 400 copies, Sculptures in the Round is both an exhibition-related publication and an autonomous artist’s book that offers insight into Dewar and Gicquel’s approach to sculpture, making, and the visual language of objects.