Eric van Hove: Sculpture that Goes 'Vroom'
Following the Belgian conceptual artist as he and his team create a working motorbike using traditional Moroccan craft techniques
Eric van Hove makes sculpture that goes 鈥渧room鈥�. For the past few years, this conceptual artist has been working in Morocco on a project called the Mahjouba Initiative, which involves building a series of motorbikes using only traditional craft materials. Eric calls this work 鈥渁 socio-economic sculpture鈥�, the idea being that the pieces can be exhibited as artworks but also used as the prototype for a new vehicle.
Anna McNamee meets Eric and his team as he works on the latest model 鈥� the Mahjouba III 鈥� which was to be put on show at the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in Marrakech in 2018.
This story was recorded back in December 2017.
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