Pierre Fouché.
'n Aarde Nuut en Vry (An Earth freed and renewed). 2024
Dice on aluminium. 185 × 135 × 5 cm. Edition: 3 + AP.



Pierre Fouché.
Ek sien n nuwe hemel kom (I see a new heaven descending). 2024
Dice on aluminium. 185 × 135 × 5 cm. Edition: 3 + AP.



Pierre Fouche
Pierre Fouche


Pierre Fouché.
Voor die Val (Before the fall). 2022.
Acrylic die on laminated aluminium.
144 x 90cm


The piece is based on a colourful illustration of Adam, appropriated from a Spanish Bible App.

My angle about the work is that there is currently some speculation that a "way out" for humanity is a return to primitivism. The Bible story of Adam in the garden represents our prehistoric past in the collective unconscious, in my opinion (my evangelical mother in law disagrees vehemently, so this is not a generally held opinion). So I guess this work asks the viewer to consider the implications of what it means to be a part of nature, innocent. Our hominid predecessors weren't even human, so beyond the pretty colours there's always a can of worms. Every Utopia comes at a price.

The link to textiles is very visible here from a technical perspective, weaving, tapestry, mosaics. Again, all the things that have been with us for nearly forever.

And then the luck of the draw for existing in the first place. Dice in this piece represent the insane probability that our world and very existence might not have emerged at all around our star.

`PF 2022


Pierre Fouche
Pierre Fouche
Pierre Fouché.
Die Baaiers I, II & III (The Bathers I, II & III). 2020-2021.
Dice on aluminium. 185 × 135 × 5 cm. Private collections




Pierre Fouché. My Pragtige Pa (My Beautiful Dad).2020.
Acrylic die on laminated aluminium. 185 x 1134,3 x 4cm. Private Collection



Pierre Fouche. Die Drie Gawes. 2019. Dice
Pierre Fouché. Die Drie Gawes (The Three Graces). 2019.
Acrylic die on laminated aluminium. 200 x 125cm. Private collection.



 

Pierre Fouche, Net Ons, 2019, Dice, 2.5 x 2m

 

Pierre Fouché. Net Ons (Just Us)2019.
Acrylic die on laminated aluminium. 250 x 200cm. Private Collection.


Pierre Fouche

 

Pierre Fouché. Pietà. 2018.
Acrylic dice on laminated aluminium. 200 x 125cm. [Based on a photograph by Christoff van Wyk, with kind permission] Private collection.



Pierre Fouché. Simon & Pieter. 2018. Acrylic die on laminated aluminium. 200 x 125cm. [Based on a photograph by Christoff van Wyk, with kind permission]
Pierre Fouché. Simon & Pieter. 2018.
Acrylic die on laminated aluminium. 200 x 125cm. [Based on a photograph by Christoff van Wyk, with kind permission] Private collection.



 

Pierre Fouché. Mahmoud & Ayaz. 2012. 10 000 indigo dice. 2000 x 1280 x 16mm. Ed: 3+Ap. Private collections.



Pierre Fouché. The distance between us II (2004). 6000 commercial resin dice, paper label stickers, cardboard, black pen, clear packaging tape, glass, pine, steel & cable wire. 84 x 109.5 x 8cm. Corporate Collection.