Ossington Community Association Local Goods and Services Auction

Bruno Billio

Rhinos

2008

6 1/4" x 8 3/4"; matted size 26" x 28 1/2"

Value: $250

This photo by Bruno Billio, artist-in-residence at the Gladstone Hotel, is featured in a recent review here.  It captures the "constant production of fake depths" and associated multi-faceted connotations of Billio's signature rhino sculptures.

From the review:

"Bruno Billio has made a name for himself around the city for his interior design works and installation practices. These two aspects of his career tend to co-mingle. Found objects are simplified by vibrant or matte monochromes and held in vitrines or on mirror paneled platforms, stacked up. The show trades heavily on the work at the Gladstone, with a bottle of 'Pure Art' poured from its taps. It's kind of a Piero Manzoni gag, much like the jeweled anuses that can be found on the yellow rhinos that flank one wall of his show at DeLuca Fine Art. It's full of humour and a giddy leaping between notions of scale. But it's the constant production of fake depths thanks to his use of mirrors that really rules the day."