Mikael Alacoqué is wicked.
Initially trained as a traditional figurative sculptor and Mouldmaker.
I now seek to find new meaning and relevance in old outmoded
techniques.
I'm fascinated by the idea of the public monument and much of my work
revolves around the need to investigate the way in which society
records events and people by casting them in metal and stone.
I seek to rip the idea of the public monument asunder and then
re-build it in a new order with a revised iconography. My work seeks
to expose and examine the insecurities and frailties of society, and
our place within it.
Recent works 'Gnome Kone' and 'Bad Babysitter' are part of a series of
sculptures that are concerned with a playfully sinister bastardization
of familiar objects. The pieces have an initial feeling of innocence
and irreverence but on closer inspection seem more bizarre and
unsettling.