Daft Punk Depicted Without Masks in New Sculpture

Photo via Galerie Perrotin

Daft Punk are the subjects of a new sculpture by Xavier Veilhan as part of his new series called “Producers”, the Creators Project reports. Well, actually, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo are in the sculptures—no masks. The piece is made of birch plywood and it’s featured in Veilhan’s “Music” exhibition at Galerie Perrotin in New York, which opens tomorrow. That’s what it looks like above.

Veilhan talked to the Creators Project about working with the duo, who were 3D scanned. He said it was their decision to be scanned without masks on.

“The funny thing is I didn’t even ask them. It was a very logical response to my proposal: I proposed to introduce them as producers, not as musicians, and so after talking to them, we decided that they should appear with their civilian names. [...] They proposed to me: ‘Okay, we should make the sculpture the non-existing image of us. So if somebody wants to see how we are like in real [life] they’ll have to look at the sculpture.’”

The series also features sculptures of Giorgio Moroder, the Neptunes, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Rick Rubin, Nigel Godrich, Quincy Jones, and Philippe Zdar. Read the full interview to see his sculpture of Perry and find out the complexities that come with sculpting Rubin’s beard.

Read our Cover Story on Daft Punk.

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