Ding Dong
Galerie Oasis
The City-Centre Art Space for Transdimensional Art
proudly presents:
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Ding Dong
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Exhibition of Sculptures & Prints by
Martin Claude
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21 November 2026 – 31 January 2027
Opening Party Saturday 21 November 2026,
from 6 – 10 pm at Galerie Oasis
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This is the very first solo exhibition by Martin Claude, a young male artist with a strong streak of mad inventor, whose fantastical imagination encompasses the oceans and space. In the blink of an eye he takes you back to your childhood. All the viewer needs to do is energise his inventions by moving a cog wheel with our finger or touching it with our toe. The sculpture titled ‘Ding Dong’ itself was conjured into being by the artist from copper sheet, metal wire and cheap paint tins. It entertains us with its chaos if we merely turn the cogs for the armada of fighter jets, rockets, tanks, police cars and submarines to launch an attack on the giant blue King Kong, who is struggling to protect himself and his beloved Ann Darrow tenderly held in the palm of his hand. These tableaux make us laugh and cry for the doomed fate of lovers, a so-called monstrous savage facing so much barbaric savagery.
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No one has told Martin Claude that his creative process fits the definition of ‘Bricolage’—art from waste material, a philosophy along the same lines as the Arte Povera group in 1960-1970’s Italy, which is becoming current again with works inspired by global warming. It is also a close relative of Kinetic Art’s 4 dimensional works (with movement in the 4th dimension), such as ‘The Celestial Horde’, in which a horde of copper horses are galloping heavenward, powered by energy from the viewer’s toe.
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Martin Claude, French artist of many talents and sense of humour, graduated in off-set printing. He’d been a graffiti artist before becoming art director of a theatre in Paris. He now has a studio to create his fascinating works in Bang Rak market, a rich source of prime raw materials.
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