Kasper Bosmans\u2019 practice combines sculpture, installation, painting and drawing. His works are complex compositions teeming with references from high art, literature, folk or pop culture, heraldry, mythology and anthropology, which the artist addresses through a playful, queer approach that observes and reinvents narratives from the world around us. Bosmans gathers anecdotes and stories, from different cultures and societies, identifying unusual, idiosyncratic practices and rituals. He translates them through a contemporary lens, while drawing our attention to the remnants of local traditions and mythological iconography in contemporary life.<\/p>\n
Kasper Bosman\u2019s new commission for EM\u03a3\u03a4, \u03a4he Fuzzy Gaze (2025), examines the shifting roles animals have occupied in the human world over time. This large-scale mural loosely investigates the history and development of the animal-human gaze in the shape of a procession. \u0399t highlights the various roles we assign to animals; companions, entertainers and commodities shaped to serve our desire for utility, spectacle, or comfort. Horses, teddy bears, dissected frogs, and feline eyes appear in scenes ranging from the household to the circus. Evocative and rebus-like, they reveal minute zoological details and fragments of regional lore, layering local specificity with universal resonance. The work re-creates the feeling of walking through a zoo, caught in the unblinking stare of beasts, or seated in a circus, where trained gestures and rehearsed mannerisms flicker by, rapid and dazzling.<\/p>\n
Heraldic stylization and the use of the caparison \u2013 an ornamental covering spread over a horse\u2019s saddle or harness -is a recurring reference of one form of the aesthetic commodification of animals by humans in European history; one might also notice the glazed-over eyes and boredom in a variety of artificial man-made contexts, specifically designed enclosures for animals: the zoo, the circus, the farm.<\/p>\n
The work has been commissioned for the exhibition Why Look at Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives<\/em>, at EM\u03a3T, 15 May 2025 \u2013 15 February 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kasper Bosmans\u2019 practice combines sculpture, installation, painting and drawing. His works are complex compositions teeming with references from high art, literature, folk or pop culture, heraldry, mythology and anthropology, which the artist addresses through a playful, queer approach that observes and reinvents narratives from the world around us. Bosmans gathers anecdotes and stories, from different […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":91548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-exhibition-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,34],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91165"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94156,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91165\/revisions\/94156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}