Bachibouzouk (1977) - Les toits de Mumbai

this signed sculpture, Bachibouzouk, a Belgian artist from Brussels with roots in street art, transforms a simple wooden board into a metropolis, vibrant and compact like a breath.
Squares of balsa and rectangles of metal, spray-painted like shards of dawn or dusk, crowd together like makeshift houses, tin roofs, miniature shelters. Each element seems to have its own story, its own warmth, but all are irresistibly drawn to one another.
A dense, compact, almost organic city, where proximity becomes rhythm and breath.
At the center of this effervescence, two long empty lines trace silent paths — air currents, promises of passage.
They cleave the city like two possible roads, two exits in a world where everything touches.
The work captures the raw energy of urbanity, the intimacy of crowds, and the chaotic poetry of cities that invent themselves.
A fragment of Mumbai reinterpreted, a street art dream turned into sculpture, a sensitive map in which one loses oneself with delight.
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