bio

Throughout a rich body of work, Amsterdam-based artist Ciro Duclos often combines raw materials from urban structures with an ethereal aesthetics. As Duclos’ practice leans heavily on the materiality of his works, the artist’s approach is not unlike that of Minimal Art, but where Minimalism settled on the notion that what you see is what you see, Duclos brings everyday structures into the realm of art with a sensibility towards the fact that even raw steel, concrete, glass, or polyurethane generate specific meaning in the eyes of their spectators.

The work of Ciro Duclos is often informed both by his everyday environment and that of his ancestors. As the son of a Dutch mother and Peruvian father he steeps his works in history both culturally and materially. While previous series of works, such as his Frontera installations of uprooted fences, emerge from working with found materials, the sculptural works Duclos presented in his most recent exhibition MOLD breathe a more earthly atmosphere. Layer upon layer, pure matter gives way to structures that can both be read as the architectural foundations of urban cityscapes, while they simultaneously appear as the result of geological explorations into the uncertain division between nature and culture. Both archeology and natural history, but also a contemporary interpretation of painting with materials itself, MOLD presents an intricate process of spatial and sculptural making.

Ciro Duclos (1991) lives and works in Amsterdam, where he also co-founded the artist collective INDEBT Studios. Graduated from the Royal Academy of Art at The Hague in 2015, Duclos rapidly expended his practice into a wide-ranging body of works. Following a Young Talent stipend from the Mondriaan Fonds in 2019, Duclos presented work from his Frontera series at Prospects & Concepts, at Art Rotterdam 2020, while revealing an entirely new series of sculptures in the solo exhibition I Heard Corn was Purple Once at Art Chapel, Amsterdam.

Ciro

Duclos

Amsterdam

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1991

Lives and works in Amsterdam

Featured artworks & exhibitions

Werken door Wachten

2022

solo exhibition
Kunsthuis Waterland
Purmerend

Obedience

2022

solo exhibition
Everyday Gallery
Antwerp, BE

Botter

2022

public sculpture
Dover Street Market
Tokyo, JP

available artworks

mold painting #15
,  
2022
pigmented concrete, plaster, wax, PU foam on corten steel
140 x 100 cm
sold
pillar
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2021
concrete, plaster, wax, PU foam, pigment, metal, marble
67 x 12.5 x 12.5 cm
€ 1.800,-
mold painting #9
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2021
pigmented concrete, plaster, wax, PU foam on corten steel
70 x 50 cm
€ 1.800,-
mold painting
,  
2021
Concrete, plaster, wax, PU Foam, pigment on corten steel
40 x 30 cm
sold
mold painting #12
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2021
pigmented concrete, plaster, wax, PU foam on high polished stainless steel
40 x 30 cm
€ 1.100,-
mold painting #14
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2021
pigmented concrete, plaster, wax, PU foam on corten steel
140 x 100 cm
sold

gallery exhibitions & fairs

Your Recipes for my Happiness
Your Recipes for my Happiness
Ciro Duclos
October 20, 2023
November 25, 2023
Negenenveertig en een half
Negenenveertig en een half
Nazif Lopulissa, Ciro Duclos, Daan van Golden, Majda Vidakovic, Rob Renoult, Ido Vunderink, Bert Frings, Lieve Hakkers & Jan van der Ploeg
December 22, 2022
January 13, 2023
The Solo Project
The Solo Project
Ciro Duclos & Koen Taselaar
April 28, 2022
May 1, 2022
MOLD
MOLD
Ciro Duclos
March 10, 2022
March 27, 2022