
Drawings

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Endeavours

Paintings

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Videos
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Drawings
- Zurich Load Drawings
- Tender
- Sir Walter Scott Stacks
- Mark Makers
- Gelatine Drawings
- Cola Pool Drawings
- A-Hole Drawings
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Editions
- Sylva Lounger
- Front & Back
- Thermal Images
- Bou Bou Bag (Tie-D)
- MR2 Mood Lamp
- Load
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Endeavours
- Watershed
- Zurich Load
- Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey
- My Cola Lite
- MR2
- Carpe Denim
- Canburger
- Big Bag Theory
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Paintings
- Tapestry Cartoons
- Impulse Strategies
- Burger Paintings
- Gelatine Paintings
- Denim Paintings
- Colachromes
- Bounty
- Bilboa Paintings
- A-Hole Paintings
- Valley
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Sculptures
- Schadout Stacks
- Gelatine Sculptures
- Trixie
- Sir Walter Scott
- Keglon
- Jacuzzis
- Energy Log
- A-Hole Sculptures
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Videos
- Untitled
- Love Dive
- Flat Desert Cola Pool
- 16×9 Action Film
- Zurich Load Drawings
- Tender
- Sir Walter Scott Stacks
- Mark Makers
- Gelatine Drawings
- Cola Pool Drawings
- A-Hole Drawings
- Sylva Lounger
- Front & Back
- Thermal Images
- Bou Bou Bag (Tie-D)
- MR2 Mood Lamp
- Load
- Watershed
- Zurich Load
- Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey
- My Cola Lite
- MR2
- Carpe Denim
- Canburger
- Big Bag Theory
- Tapestry Cartoons
- Impulse Strategies
- Burger Paintings
- Gelatine Paintings
- Denim Paintings
- Colachromes
- Bounty
- Bilboa Paintings
- A-Hole Paintings
- Valley
- Schadout Stacks
- Gelatine Sculptures
- Trixie
- Sir Walter Scott
- Keglon
- Jacuzzis
- Energy Log
- A-Hole Sculptures
- Untitled
- Love Dive
- Flat Desert Cola Pool
- 16×9 Action Film
Zurich Load Drawings
The Zurich Load drawings are part of Mike Bouchet’s work for Manifesta 11 (2016), where he presented an 80 ton sculpture made of human sludge in the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art. The concept for Manifesta 11, “What People Do For Money”, hosted by the city of Zürich, was based on pairing an artist with a particular profession. Mike Bouchet had chosen to work with the city’s waste water treatment facility.

Mike Bouchet, Bedrock, 2016, cola oil, acrylic paint and pencil on watercolor paper, 84 x 59.4 cm

Mike Bouchet, Capacity, 2016, cola oil, acrylic paint and pencil on watercolor paper, 84 x 59.4 cm

Mike Bouchet, Civil Unrest, 2016, cola oil, acrylic paint and pencil on watercolor paper, 84 x 59.4 cm

Mike Bouchet, Currents, 2016, cola oil, acrylic paint and pencil on watercolor paper, 84 x 59.4 cm

Mike Bouchet, Equilibrium, 2016, cola oil, acrylic paint and pencil on watercolor paper, 84 x 59.4 cm

Mike Bouchet, Fundamental, 2016, cola oil, acrylic paint and pencil on watercolor paper, 84 x 59.4 cm

Mike Bouchet, Level, 2016, cola oil, acrylic paint and pencil on watercolor paper, 84 x 59.4 cm

Mike Bouchet, Max Cap, 2016, cola oil, acrylic paint and pencil on watercolor paper, 84 x 59.4 cm

Mike Bouchet, Private Equity, 2016, cola oil, acrylic paint and pencil on watercolor paper, 84 x 59.4 cm

Mike Bouchet, Road Block, 2016, cola oil, acrylic paint and pencil on watercolor paper, 84 x 59.4 cm
Tender
The Tender drawings are part of the project Tender, that is a sculpture by Mike Bouchet and was exhibited at Marlborough gallery in Chelsea, New York in 2017. Occupying the entire 45,000 cubic feet of gallery space, Tender is the synthesized fragrance of US Dollar bills. Although invisible, the sculpture, in fact, fills every molecule of the space.

Mike Bouchet, Tender (GOGO), 2016, pencil on paper, 70 x 100 cm

Mike Bouchet, Tender (Mess), 2016, pencil on paper, 70 x 100 cm

Mike Bouchet, Tender (Mocha), 2016, pencil on paper, 70 x 100 cm

Mike Bouchet, Tender (Mother), 2016, pencil on paper, 70 x 100 cm

Mike Bouchet, Tender (Puck), 2016, pencil on paper, 70 x 100 cm

Mike Bouchet, Tender (Shaft), 2016, pencil on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Sir Walter Scott Stacks
The Sir Walter Scott Stack drawings were made from each of the individual stacks from the Sir Walter Scott sculpture.

Mike Bouchet, barks across the pathless flood, pencil and aquarelle on paper, 100 x 150 cm

Mike Bouchet, do what you should, pencil and aquarelle on paper, 150 x 100 cm

Mike Bouchet, every cock fights best, pencil and aquarelle on paper, 150 x 100 cm

Mike Bouchet, i do not sacrifice, pencil and aquarelle on paper, 100 x 150 cm

Mike Bouchet, the rose tis fairest, pencil and aquarelle on paper, 150 x 100 cm
Mark Makers

Mike Bouchet, Mark Makers 1, 2019, aquarelle and wax crayons on paper, 40 x 30 cm

Mike Bouchet, Mark Makers 2, 2019, aquarelle and wax crayons on paper, 40 x 30 cm

Mike Bouchet, Mark Makers 3, 2019, aquarelle and wax crayons on paper, 40 x 30 cm

Mike Bouchet, Mark Makers 4, 2019, aquarelle and wax crayons on paper, 40 x 30 cm

Mike Bouchet, Mark Makers 5, 2019, aquarelle and wax crayons on paper, 40 x 30 cm

Mike Bouchet, Mark Makers 6, 2019, aquarelle and wax crayons on paper, 40 x 30 cm

Mike Bouchet, Mark Makers 7, 2019, aquarelle and wax crayons on paper, 40 x 30 cm
Gelatine Drawings

Mike Bouchet, Sobel Dessert Drawings, 2021, Candied gelatin on backing board, pencil, frame, 78 x 58 cm

Mike Bouchet, Sobel Dessert Drawings, In all chaos there is a Cosmos..., 2021, Candied gelatin on backing board, pencil, frame, 78 x 58 cm

Mike Bouchet, Sobel Dessert Drawings, The Artist is not a person endowed…, 2021, Candied gelatin on backing board, pencil, frame, 78 x 58 cm

Mike Bouchet, Sobel Dessert Drawings, The collective unconscious…, 2021, Candied gelatin on backing board, pencil, frame, 78 x 58 cm

Mike Bouchet, Sobel Dessert drawings, The creation of something new…, 2021, Candied gelatin on backing board, pencil, frame, 78 x 58 cm
Cola Pool Drawings

Mike Bouchet, A Cool Dark Dip Depression, 2013, cola oil and pencil on paper, 70 x 100 cm

Mike Bouchet, A Dark Brown Volume, 2010, cola oil and pencil on paper, 142 x 100 cm

Mike Bouchet, A New York Minute Pool, 2013, cola oil and pencil on paper

Mike Bouchet, A Suspended Hanging Black Mass, 2013, cola oil and pencil on paper

Mike Bouchet, A Volume to be Lapped in-and or Lapped, 2013, cola oil and pencil on paper

Mike Bouchet, Deep Satisfaction, 2013, cola oil and pencil on paper, 70 x 100 cm

Mike Bouchet, Sweet Acid Dip, 2013, cola oil and pencil on paper
A-Hole Drawings
The A-Hole drawings and collages relate specifically to the exhibition “Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dick Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model” at Portikus in Frankfurt as well as further larger themes: The Portikus building’s similar appearance to a “Spanish Donkey” medieval torture device, the humiliating aspects of architectures relation to art, Captain America and his arch rival, an italian fascist named the red skull (as portrayed by a Valentino look-a-like) as a metaphor for some imperialistic aspects of US cultural hegemony since WW2, the artists themselves as equally fallible characters, and many more complex arenas.

Mike Bouchet, Type A & Type A, 2013, collage on paper, 59,5 x 42 cm

Mike Bouchet, The Torture Model, 2013, collage, 70 x 50 cm

Mike Bouchet, The final piece of the Puzzle, 2013, drawing on paper, 42 x 59,5 cm

Mike Bouchet, Turns out, I was a sculptor, 2013, collage, 59,5 x 42 cm

Mike Bouchet, Rome was not built in a day, 2013, collage, 100 x 70 cm

Mike Bouchet, Spanish Donkey Shit Butter, 2014, watercolor, pencil on paper, 70 x 50 cm

Mike Bouchet, You have to ignore the pain, 2013, collage, 59,5 x 42 cm
Sylva Lounger
The Sylva Lounger is an unique edition lounge chair made out of an actual shopping cart.
Originally realised in 2010, and available as a sculpture, Mike Bouchet has created different versions of this concept over the years. Due to popular interest, he decided to create a unique and affordable furniture line of the original artwork. The Sylva Lounger comes in two versions- either with or without arm supports.
The chair is produced by cutting the sides of an actual shopping cart and folding down the front section of the basket into a leg support. The sides of the steel basket are bent and trimmed into armchair supports.

Mike Bouchet, Sylva Lounger, 2010

Mike Bouchet, Sylva Lounger, Screen Blue Edition, 2010

Mike Bouchet, Sylva Lounger, Rosa Lux Edition and Screen Blue Edition, 2010

Mike Bouchet, Sylva Lounger, Therapy Leather Edition, 2010

Mike Bouchet, Sylva Lounger, Nama Denim Edition, 2010

Mike Bouchet, Sylva Lounger, Rosa Lux Edition, 2010

Mike Bouchet, Sylva Lounger, Therapy Leather Edition and Nama Denim Edition, 2010

Mike Bouchet, Sylva Lounger, Screen Blue Edition, 2010
Front & Back
Thermal Images

Mike Bouchet, PS 1, 2016, digital print on hahnemühle paper, 60 x 80 cm

Mike Bouchet, PS 2, 2016, digital print on hahnemühle paper, 60 x 80 cm

Mike Bouchet, PS 3, 2016, digital print on hahnemühle paper, 60 x 80 cm

Mike Bouchet, PS 4, 2016, digital print on hahnemühle paper, 60 x 80 cm

Mike Bouchet, PS 5, 2016, digital print on hahnemühle paper, 60 x 80 cm

Mike Bouchet, PS 6, 2016, digital print on hahnemühle paper, 60 x 80 cm

Mike Bouchet, PS 7, 2016, digital print on hahnemühle paper, 60 x 80 cm

Mike Bouchet, PS 10, 2016, digital print on hahnemühle paper, 60 x 80 cm

Mike Bouchet, PS 12, 2016, digital print on hahnemühle paper, 60 x 80 cm
Bou Bou Bag (Tie-D)

Mike Bouchet, Bou Bou Bag (Tie-D), 2021, edition of 10, bleached denim, 30 liter plastic canister, 46 x 25 x 30 cm

Mike Bouchet, Bou Bou Bag (Tie-D), 2021, edition of 10, bleached denim, 30 liter plastic canister, 46 x 25 x 30 cm

Mike Bouchet, Bou Bou Bag (Tie-D) and Sobel Dessert Drawings, 2021, edition of 10, bleached denim, 30 liter plastic canister, 46 x 25 x 30 cm, Exhibition view, Lustre, Parisa Kind
MR2 Mood Lamp
Load

Mike Bouchet, Load 1, 2015, archival inkjet print on hahnemühle paper, 120 x 90 cm

Mike Bouchet, Load 2, 2015, archival inkjet print on hahnemühle paper, 120 x 90 cm

Mike Bouchet, Load 3, 2015, archival inkjet print on hahnemühle paper, 120 x 90 cm

Mike Bouchet, Load 4, 2015, archival inkjet print on hahnemühle paper, 120 x 90 cm

Mike Bouchet, Load 5, 2015, archival inkjet print on hahnemühle paper, 120 x 90 cm

Mike Bouchet, Load 6, 2015, archival inkjet print on hahnemühle paper, 120 x 90 cm
Watershed
This artwork is a full scale, two-story contemporary American Suburban house that stands on the seawater of Venice, Italy as a special project of the 2009 Venice Biennale. Sitting exactly flush with the sea surface, this empty house floated on water until it sunk. The house itself is an exact construction of a new American Suburban house. Constructed from a wood frame with vinyl sided exterior, asphalt shingled roof, traditional windows, white interior walls, nighttime lights and a garage door.

Mike Bouchet, Watershed, 2009, docuemnation image, Venice Biennale

Mike Bouchet, Watershed, 2009, installation view Venice Biennale

Mike Bouchet, Watershed, 2009, installation view Venice Biennale

Mike Bouchet, Watershed, 2009, installation view Venice Biennale

Mike Bouchet, Leftovers In The Fridge, 2009, pencil on inkjet print, 100 x 70 cm

Mike Bouchet, No Hostages, 2009, pencil on inkjet print, 80 x 60 cm

Mike Bouchet, Spazio Disponible Lamp, 2009, edition, 200 x 45 x 10 cm

Mike Bouchet, Watershed Shipwreck, 2009, installation view

Mike Bouchet, Watershed Shipwreck, 2009, installation view
Zurich Load
The concept for Manifesta 11 (2016), “What People Do For Money”, hosted by the city of Zürich, was based on pairing an artist with a particular profession. Mike Bouchet had chosen to work with the city’s waste water treatment facility. His work for Manifesta 11 is titled “The Zurich Load” and Bouchet presented an 80 ton sculpture made of human sludge in the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art. The city of Zurich has a population of 400,000 people, and on average produces 80 tons of sludge per day. This collaborative sculpture is a literal display of one day of the citizen’s “production” and provided a renowned context for everyone to see what they collectively produced.

Mike Bouchet, Installation view Zurich Load, 2016, Manifesta 11, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art

Mike Bouchet, Installation view Zurich Load, 2016, Manifesta 11, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art

Mike Bouchet, Push, 2016, digital print on hahnemühle paper, 80 x 60 cm

Mike Bouchet, Z.L. 3 (Stare), 2016, digital print on hahnemühle paper, 60 x 80 cm

Mike Bouchet, Z.L. 6 (Heading), 2016, digital print on hahnemühle paper, 60 x 80 cm

Mike Bouchet, Z.L. 10 (Break), 2016, digital print on hahnemühle paper, 60 x 80 cm

Mike Bouchet, Z.L. 12 (Present), 2016, digital print on hahnemühle paper, 60 x 80 cm

Mike Bouchet, Zurich Load , 2016, Installation in progress, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zürich

Mike Bouchet, Zurich Load, 2016, production process, City of Zurich Waste treatment facility
Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey
A few years ago, independently from one another, Paul McCarthy and Mike Bouchet both had made a work that transformed the Guggenheim New York into a toilet. This coincidence sparked an ongoing conversation about shared interests in the politics of art institutions and their architecture. It has lead them to develop a site-specific project for Portikus.
The center piece of the exhibition is a sculpture of the Guggenheim Bilbao, originally designed by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry. An over-scaled architectural model, this version of Bilbao is reminiscent of a battered, ragged warship that has washed up to the shores of the island after defeat. A long pipe extends upwards from the sculpture, through to the ceiling of the upper gallery. Here, hundreds of liters of liquid gummi are disposed of into the very core of the museum. This is also where the production of the A-Hole Sport Drink happens, a beef and banana flavored sports drink acting as a pseudo-exhibition sponsor through aggressive product placement. The drink is needed to create the adrenalin-boosting concoction The Bigga Picka Uppa—one liter of A-Hole with a Snickers bar dropped into it.

Mike Bouchet and Paul McCarthy, Bilboa Bilboa Battleship Double Deck Model with 6 carpets, 2013, mixed media installation, dimensions variable

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Bilboa Burrocacao x 6, 2013, oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cm

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Gary 2, 2013, oil on canvas, 150 x 100 cm

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Shields Bombing Target (red, blue), 2014, mixed media on metal board, 120 cm diameter

Mike Bouchet and McCarthy, Bilboa Bilbao Battleship, 2013, wood, cardboard and aluminum, 1158 x 579 x 792 cm

Mike Bouchet and McCarthy, Bilboa Bilbao Battleship, 2013, wood, cardboard and aluminum, 1158 x 579 x 792 cm

Mike Bouchet and Paul McCarthy, 3rd Place Bigga Picka Uppa, 2014, glass jar, bronze, and energy drink, 25,4 x 15,2 x 12 cm

Mike Bouchet and Paul McCarthy, Bilbao Group (component 2), 2014, drawing on photographic prints, marker and pencil on paper, 48 x 68 cm

Mike Bouchet and Paul McCarthy, Bilbao Group (component 3), 2014, drawing on photographic prints, marker and pencil on paper, 48 x 68 cm

Mike Bouchet and Paul McCarthy, Bilboa Bilboa Battleship, upper floor, 2013, mixed media installation, dimensions variable

Mike Bouchet and Paul McCarthy, Bilboa Bilboa Battleship, upper floor, 2013, mixed media installation, dimensions variable

Mike Bouchet and Paul McCarthy, Double Stack A-Hole Room, 2014, mixed media installation, dimensions variable

Mike Bouchet and Paul McCarthy, White Room, 2014, installation view detail

Mike Bouchet and Paul McCarthy, White Room, 2014, installation view

Mike Bouchet, The Torture Model, 2013, collage, 70 x 50 cm
My Cola Lite
My Cola Lite is a sculpture composed of 2000 one liter bottles of diet cola and a five meter long painted shipping container. Mike Bouchet produced the cola with no sweetener or sugar, hence the “lite” or diet moniker. The artist wanted the cola to be black, like oil, and had the cola produced with the maximum amount of caramel coloring possible. The resulting “Black American Water” is also used as a pigment for paintings. The paintings, more properly referred to as stainings, are created by staining white cotton with this cola.

Mike Bouchet, My Cola Lite (Six pack), 2004, stamped wood crate, 6 bottles, 15 x 60 x 40 cm

Mike Bouchet, ASK FOR MORE ASK, 2007, artist produced diet cola on cotton, 180 x 120 cm

Mike Bouchet, Cola Container, 2004, painted steel sea container, 240 x 260 x 600 cm, Installation view, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp

Mike Bouchet, Cola Fountain, 2007, industrial drinking fountain, CO2 beverage dispenser, artist produced diet cola syrup, 105 x 32 x 32 cm

Mike Bouchet, Cola Painting Stack, 2005, Installation view, Maccarone Inc. New York City

Mike Bouchet, Descending 2, 2013, artist produced diet cola on cotton, 240 x 160 cm

Mike Bouchet, Flat Desert Cola Pool, 2010, production still

Mike Bouchet, Flat Desert Cola Pool, 2010, production still

Mike Bouchet, Freedom Burns, 2004, artist produced diet cola on cotton, 80 x 60 cm

Mike Bouchet, My Cola Lite, 2004, 2000 liter bottles self produced diet cola, Installation view, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp

Mike Bouchet, My Cola Lite, 2004, bottles detail

Mike Bouchet, My Cola Lite, 2004, studio table
MR2
Self described as “Cabaret for Parisians”, and toying with the popularity of cabaret in commercial film and tourist destination, Mike Bouchet created an immersive environment, which includes various motifs, paintings, sculptures, and 3 hour dinner event at the Galerie Azzedine Alaïa. Every element of the performance was conceived by the artist: dialogue, music, choreography, set design, dinner menu, costumes, lighting, … even the waiters actions. “MR2” engaged with the romantic notions of Parisian cabaret, contemporary culture, and the meaning of life entertainment for artists, performers and audience alike.
This unique performance was a 3 hour spectacle with actors, dancers, musicians and other performers: an actual cabaret. After the event, the space was opened to the public in which the remains of the performance was be left for the gallery visitors to see.

Mike Boucht, MR2, 2016, performance documentation

Mike Boucht, MR2, 2016, performance documentation

Mike Boucht, MR2, 2016, performance documentation

Mike Boucht, MR2, 2016, performance documentation

Mike Boucht, MR2, 2016, performance documentation

Mike Bouchet JayZ and Beyonce, 2016, silkscreen, aquarelle, offset printed plastic, photograph, 67 x 180 cm

Mike Bouchet, Big Red T Sale, 2016, 180 x 120 cm

Mike Bouchet, Hall and Murdoch, 2016, silkscreen, aquarelle, offset printed plastic, photograph, 67 x 180 cm

Mike Bouchet, MR2 Cabaret Poster, 2016, 100 x 75 cm

Mike Bouchet, Ruinart (Fucking Entertainment), 2016, pencil and aquarelle on paper, 40 x 30 cm

Mike Bouchet, The Trumps (Don and Melania), 2016, silkscreen, aquarelle, offset printed plastic, photograph, 67 x 180 cm

Mike Bouchet, MR2 French Fries Lamp, edition, 2016
Carpe Denim
Realized in March of 2004, involved the production of several thousand denim pants. Bouchet produced the jeans in the country of Colombia. The jeans are of his own design, and have a unique style. They are “one size-fits-all” with an elastic waistband. They have two large pockets in the back, a marsupial style pocket up front, and a long pocket on the side that runs most of the length of the right side.
Once the jeans were completed, Bouchet threw half of them out of an airplane in the region where they were produced. The remaining pants constitute a sculpture.
Over the following year, the artist threw many jeans into public areas in several locations around the world: out of a building in New York City, from a convertible car in Antwerp, Belgium and from the top of a shopping mall in Frankfurt, Germany.

Mike Bouchet, Carpe Denim, 2004, FallWinterSpringSummer, installation view, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt

Mike Bouchet, Carpe Denim, 2004, installation view, Sierra Leone Boxes

Mike Bouchet, Carpe Denim, 2004, jeans shoved in van

Mike Bouchet, Carpe Denim, 2004, Mortar Ammunition Crate

Mike Bouchet, Carpe Denim, 2004, Production facility, Call Colombia

Mike Bouchet, Carpe Denim, 2004, World Denomination, installation view, New Langton Arts Center, San Francisco

Mike Bouchet, Carpe Denim, Colombia, 2004, mixed media and photograph

Mike Bouchet, Carpe Denim, Denim Stack, installation view
Canburger
Working with a meat canning company in Germany, Bouchet has developed a hamburger in a can, with a shelf life of two years. The hamburger is sandwiched between two buns, has tomato ketchup and mustard already on it, and has a pull top lid for easy opening. In the month of December, 2007, Bouchet placed a stand offering free samples of the Canburger at the Enfant Rouge Marche in Paris. This public market was created under Louis XIV and is the oldest public market in Paris. The Canburger is a starting point for a larger investigation into some of the more manifest issues involved in one of the worlds most popular food items. For the bronze hamburger sculpture (and shiny metallic hamburger cans) Bouchet produced 10.000 canned burgers and takes the current trend for what can be called “spectacular materiality” to its uncomfortable extreme.

Mike Bouchet, Rest, 2008, detail view

Mike Bouchet, Canburger, 2007, Marché des Enfantes Rouges Sample Study, Paris

Mike Bouchet, Canburger, 2007, Sample Study at Marché des Enfantes Rouges

Mike Bouchet, DecaBurger, 2007, bronze, ceramic plate, 38 x 10 x 10 cm

Mike Bouchet, Rest, 2008, installation view I, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris

Mike Bouchet, Rest, 2008, installation view II, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris

Mike Bouchet, Tear, 2007, d-print, 90 x 120 cm
Big Bag Theory
The personal rescue enclosure (PRE) or “rescue ball” was developed as a solution for transporting astronauts from one Space Shuttle to another in case of an emergency. The ball allowed a crew member to curl up inside and put on an oxygen mask. The oxygen supply should thus be secured for one hour, during which the rescue sphere would have been carried to the rescue shuttle by a space suited astronaut. NASA eventually abandoned the PRE, in part due to Public criticism of their processes after the Space Shuttle Columbia exploded on re-entry in 2003. Mike Bouchet had been producing Simulated versions of the PRE since 2002. In 2007, the artist produced 500 of these SPRE (simulated personal rescue enclosures) also known as Polished Space Bags, these alternative rescue enclosures were produced in Poland, composed of white PVC, a black zipper and no window. For a performance Bouchet has re-created particular episodes of popular television programs, such as “The Big Bang Theory” and “MTV’s NEXT”, with actors in these bags.

Mike Bouchet, Polished Simulated Rescue Enclosures (Space Bags), 2007-2012, installation view, Hotel Gallery London

Mike Bouchet, Polished Simulated Rescue Enclosures (Space Bags), 2007-2012, installation view, Hotel Gallery London

Mike Bouchet, Polished Simulated Rescue Enclosures (Space Bags), 2007-2012, installation view, Hotel Gallery London

Mike Bouchet, 500 Space Bags, 2007, pencil on paper, 20 x 30 cm

Mike Bouchet, Big Bag Theory, 2012, performance

Mike Bouchet, Big Bag Theory, 2012, performance

Mike Bouchet, Big Bag Theory, 2012, performance

Mike Bouchet, Big Bag Theory, 2012, performance

Mike Bouchet, Claude Levi Strauss Paste Up, 2012, offset lithography and paint on paper, 140 x 90 cm

Mike Bouchet, Do I know you from somewhere, 2012, pencil on paper, 60 x 42 cm

Mike Bouchet, Passion, 50 x 100 cm

Mike Bouchet, PSRE (Purple 1), 2012, mixed media, 120 x 180 cm

Mike Bouchet, Vacuum, 2012, aquarelle on paper, 100 x 80 cm
Tapestry Cartoons
The Tapestry Cartoons are enlarged copies of collages made by Mike Bouchet. The artest makes these collages using original feature film posters. The oil paintings are then produced by professional painters.

Mike Bouchet, Ass Nap 1, 2014, oil on canvas, 210 x 150 cm

Mike Bouchet, Blast, 2011, oil on canvas, 250 x 250 cm

Mike Bouchet, Dark Up, 2011, oil on canvas, 210 x 150 cm

Mike Bouchet, Great NymphMother, 2014, oil on canvas, 210 x 150 cm

Mike Bouchet, NymphCloud (Tacosaurus), 2014, oil on canvas, 210 x 150 cm

Mike Bouchet, NymphHorse 3, 2014, oil on canvas, 210 x 150 cm

Mike Bouchet, RobertBuster, 2014, oil on canvas, 210 x 150 cm

Mike Bouchet, UpTown 2, 2014, oil on canvas, 210 x 150 cm

Mike Bouchet, WarHorse Orgy, 2014, oil on canvas, 210 x 150 cm

Mike Bouchet, White Head, 2006, oil on canvas, 200 x 140 cm
Impulse Strategies
The business implications are fairly obvious. If businesses wish to promote impulse buying, they should create an environment where consumers can be relieved of their negative perceptions of impulse. Businesses should stress the relative rationality of impulse buying in their advertising efforts. Similarly, they should stress the non-economic rewards of impulse buying.
Additionally, businesses can make the environment more complex, further straining consumers’ abilities to process information accurately. Such techniques as stocking more merchandise, creating stimulating atmospherics, and increasing information may be useful to stimulate impulse buying. Businesses have to make impulse purchasing more risk-free, through convenient return policies, or increase enablers such as credit and store hours. Importantly, this model also offers options for consumers to control their buying impulses, if they choose to, or feel better about their impulse buying, by relieving their negative evaluations of impulse.

Mike Bouchet, Docked Pluto, 2009, oil on canvas, 150 x 120 cm

Mike Bouchet, Brace, 2012, oil on canvas, 120 x 80 cm

Mike Bouchet, Denim Slot, 2011, oil on canvas, 120 x 150 cm

Mike Bouchet, Enjoy the Backside (Dresser), 2008, oil on canvas, 150 x 120 cm

Mike Bouchet, Enjoy the rear (Fridge), 2010, oil on canvas, 170 x 130 cm

Mike Bouchet, Small Price Empire, 2008, oil on canvas, 200 x 125 cm

Mike Bouchet, Taste New York, 2007, oil on canvas, 200 x 320 cm

Mike Bouchet, Tight Fit, 2010, oil on painting, kept in bubble wrap, 150 x 120 cm

Mike Bouchet, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL, 2008, oil on canvas, 130 x 90 cm
Burger Paintings
With his large scale hamburger paintings Bouchet touches upon some of the more deep-seated issues surrounding food production and consumption in today’s world, from fast-food restaurants to canned military rations and survivalist movements. The photo-realistic paintings of hamburgers take fetishistic food photography to its grotesque limits.

Mike Bouchet, Major Study, 2016, oil on canvas, 160 x 160 cm

Mike Bouchet, Narrow Riviera, 2015, oil on canvas, 240 x 190 cm

Mike Bouchet, Nessle 1, 2015, oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm

Mike Bouchet, Square Montroy, 2015, oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm

Mike Bouchet, Square Ruple, 2015, oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm

Mike Bouchet, Square Thor, 2015, oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm

Mike Bouchet, Square Unity, 2015, oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm

Mike Bouchet, T.M.M. (Glory 1), 2015, oil on canvas, 260 x 200 cm

Mike Bouchet, Tall Bern, 2015, oil on canvas, 260 x 190 cm

Mike Bouchet, Teca, 2016, oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm

Mike Bouchet, Wide Persep, 2015, oil on canvas, 170 x 230 cm
Gelatine Paintings
Mike Bouchet has explored the materiality and aesthetics of ultra-processed foodstuffs in previous series such as in the Colachrome paintings, the Burger series or Energy Log and Energy Fog sculptures, again negotiates our perception of these culturally charged materials. For the Gelatine paintings he works with candied gelatine that give the works a range of metallic colors and surfaces which then are cast or poured onto panels, table constructions or blue carpet.

Mike Bouchet, Makers Mark 1, 2021, polyester carpet, candied gelatin, oil on wood panel, 100 x 80 cm

Mike Bouchet, Makers Mark 2, 2021, polyester carpet, candied gelatin, oil on wood panel, 100 x 80 cm

Mike Bouchet, Sotto, 2021, aluminium covered wood panel, candied gelatin, 180 x 120cm

Mike Bouchet, Vent, 2021, candied gelatin, stainless steel, polyester carpet on wood panel, 180 x 120 cm
Denim Paintings
In March of 2004 Mike Bouchet started to produce several thousand pairs of jeans in the country of Colombia. The jeans are of his own design, and have a unique style. They are “one size-fits-all” with an elastic waistband. Once the jeans were completed, Bouchet threw half of them out of an airplane in the region where they were produced. The remaining pants constitute a sculpture. Carpe Denim was the staring point for the series of Denim Paintings.

Mike Bouchet, Stitch 4 (Acid Curves), 2015, bleached denim on stretcher, 130 x 190 cm

Mike Bouchet, Andro Exotic (front), 2015, bleached denim on stretcher, 190 x 130 cm

Mike Bouchet, Back Copyright 1 (Chappie), 2015, bleached denim, 190 x 130 cm

Mike Bouchet, Back Copyright 1 (Tom), 2015, bleached denim on strecher, 190 x 130 cm

Mike Bouchet, Loop 1 (Indigo Origin), 2015, denim on stretcher, 120 x 180 cm

Mike Bouchet, Loop 2 (Grey End), 2015, denim on stretcher, 130 x 190 cm

Mike Bouchet, Lust Math, 2004, bleach on denim, 120 x 180 cm

Mike Bouchet, Tom of Frankfurt II, 2004, bleach on denim, 180 x 120 cm

Mike Bouchet, Uni Loop 2, 2015, denim on strecher, 130 x 190 cm
Colachromes
The Colachrome paintings are made with Bouchet’s self produced Diet Cola. For this series, Bouchet has drawn inspiration from the myriad of graphic information associated with the popular employment new age concepts of Zero, Nothingness, Feelings, empty that have been used in combination with far less zen phrases of obedience, desire and More. But the ever present call for more is probably rather related with the human civilisation’s dissatisfaction.

Mike Bouchet, Descending 2, 2013, artist produced diet cola on cotton, 240 x 160 cm

Mike Bouchet, ASK FOR MORE ASK, 2007, artist produced diet cola on cotton, 180 x 120 cm

Mike Bouchet, Card Back 1, 2013, artist produced diet cola on cotton, 240 x 160 cm

Mike Bouchet, More, 2018, artist produced diet cola on cotton, 170 x 110 cm

Mike Bouchet, Nothing, 2018, artist produced diet cola on cotton, 100 x 80 cm

Mike Bouchet, Pore, 2018, artist produced diet cola on cotton, 180 x 120 cm

Mike Bouchet, Taste the feeling (ring), 2018, artist produced diet cola on cotton, 100 x 70 cm

Mike Bouchet, Wavein, 2018, artist produced diet cola on cotton, 100 x 120 cm

Mike Bouchet, ZER0.ZERO. (negative), 2012, artist produced diet cola on cotton, 110 x 110 cm
Bounty
With Bounty (a word which connotes a generous surplus of amounts), Bouchet investigates our society’s collective habits within the aesthetic confines and safe boundaries of painting. This body of works on canvas is based on original photographs of collapsing human trash and waste taken by a commercial food photographer at the municipal water treatment plant in Zurich. As vibrantly painted visual tableaux, Bouchet captures the literals worst material of a society in the fragile instant before it is processed.
Despite being images of our own waste and dark symbols of a modern society, they leave the viewer feeling no sense of repulsion. The turbulence, chaos and colors recall fantastic scenes from 17th and 18th century Baroque painting, while the organic forms convey the luminosity and textures of a Dutch Golden Age still life.

Mike Bouchet, Bounty (Late), 2016, oil on canvas, 220 x 180 cm

Mike Bouchet, Bounty (Becht), 2016, oil on canvas, 220 x 180 cm

Mike Bouchet, Bounty (Caprice), 2016, oil on canvas, 220 x 180 cm

Mike Bouchet, Bounty (Forn), 2016, oil on canvas, 160 x 130 cm

Mike Bouchet, Bounty (Groupy), 2016, oil on canvas, 160 x 130 cm

Mike Bouchet, Bounty (Half Peak), 2016, oil on canvas, 160 x 130 cm

Mike Bouchet, Bounty (Half Turn), 2016, oil on canvas, 160 x 130 cm

Mike Bouchet, Bounty (Pier), 2016, oil on canvas, 220 x 180 cm
Bilboa Paintings
With their Bilboa Paintings Paul McCarthy and Mike Bouchet playing further on the “Bilbao Effect”. As part of the exhibition “Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dick Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model” at Portikus in Frankfurt the artists also include over 150 paintings and a gigantic inflatable displaying Bilboa sunscreen lotion from Italy, Hollywood actors, star architects, as well as portraits of themselves.

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Bilboa Burrocacao x 6, 2013, oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cm

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Bilboa Abbronzatissimi e Protettissimi, 2013, oil on canvas, 150 x 100 cm

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Bilboa BirraGel and BirraSun, 2013, oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cm

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Bilboa Carrot (strap) 2013, oil on canvas, 150 x 200 cm

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Bilboa Olio Sole Cocco Tropical, 2013, oil on canvas, 150 x 100 cm

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Bilboa SOLARI, 2013, oil on canvas, 150 x 100 cm

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Five Bilboa spray bottles, 2013, oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cm

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Rocky Bilboa with surfboard, 2013, oil on canvas, 110 x 150 cm
A-Hole Paintings
With their Bilboa Paintings Paul McCarthy and Mike Bouchet playing further on the “Bilbao Effect”. As part of the exhibition “Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dick Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model” at Portikus in Frankfurt the artists also include over 150 paintings and a gigantic inflatable displaying Bilboa sunscreen lotion from Italy, Hollywood actors, star architects, as well as portraits of themselves.

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, FLW crystal bust, 2013, oil on canvas, 150 x 100 cm

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Botta, 2013, oil on canvas, 150 x 100 cm

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Dominique Strauss Kahn, 2013, oil on canvas, 150 x 100 cm

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Gary 2, 2013, oil on canvas, 150 x 100 cm

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, H&D, 2013, oil on canvas, 150 x 100 cm

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Le Corbusier painting, 2013, oil on canvas, 150 x 100 cm

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Paul McCarthy, 2013, oil on canvas, 150 x 100 cm

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Richard Meier, 2013, oil on canvas, 150 x 100 cm
Valley
This series was started in 2007, with an additional painting added every year since then. Each painting is 210 x 150 cm, and can be either leaned or hung. The 14 paintings (to date) measure 21 linear meters.
Schadout Stacks

Mike Bouchet, Figure Study, 2010, mixed media, detail view

Mike Bouchet, Figure Study, 2010, mixed media

Mike Bouchet, New Newton Stack, 2011, mixed media, 50 x 80 x 50 cm

Mike Bouchet, New Newton Stack, 2011, mixed media, 50 x 80 x 50 cm

Mike Bouchet, New Newton Stack, 2011, mixed media, 50 x 80 x 50 cm

Mike Bouchet, Peres Stack, 2014, mixed media, 210 x 110 cm

Mike Bouchet, Peres Stack, 2014, mixed media, 210 x 110 cm
Gelatine Sculptures
Mike Bouchet has developed an entirely new body of work based around a material he has been investigating for the last 10 years: candied gelatin.
These Red Bull flavored sculptures made from sugar and gelatin are mixed or coated with a product from the food industry that gives the sculptures a range of metallic colors and surfaces which then are cast or poured onto panels or table constructions.

Mike Bouchet, Violeta, 2021, painted steel, candied gelatin, 45 x 60 x 100 cm

Mike Bouchet, Copper Rods (Janis), 2021, candies gelatine, stainless steel, aluminium covered wood panel, steel sawhorses, 70 x 180 x 120 cm

Mike Bouchet, Mound (bronze spray anodized), 2021, candied gelatin, 47 x 30 x 19 cm

Mike Bouchet, Foil Rods (Merca), 2021, candies gelatine, stainless steel, aluminium covered wood panel, steel sawhorses, 70 x 180 x 120 cm

Mike Bouchet, Split, 2021, candied gelatin, painted steel, 45 x 65 x 80 cm
Trixie
For the artwork Kidman (Trixie), Mike Bouchet produced a bust of Nicole Kidman working with the sculptor in residence of the Cathedral of Guadalajara, Mexico. A negative form was produced of the original clay model, and then cast in ceramic. The fired ceramic object was then painted with automotive lacquer. After this, Bouchet packed the painted ceramic bust in bubble wrap, and deliberately dropped it on the ground. Bouchet then personally glued the pieces of the broken ceramic back together and filled the interior of the bust with fiberglass and polyester construction foam to permanently secure its final form.
Sir Walter Scott
“Sir Walter Scott”, is a spectacular transformation of Bouchet’s 2009 Venice Biennale artwork titled “Watershed”. This sculptire featured a 240 square meter suburban American family home, which was floated on the waters of Venice for 6 months. After the Bienniale closed, Bouchet cut up the entire house with chainsaws and sledgehammers, in an artistic action that took more than 7 days. The resulting material from this action was shipped to his studio, and then reconfigured in this assembly of 15 “Stacks”. “Sir Walter Scott” is a single sculpture that is composed of 15 separate “stacks”; with each column placed on a specific carpet. The artist composed each of the “stacks” uniquely, and the entire collection of stacks comprises one single work. The title of the work comes directly from the name of the house model that was listed in the original construction companies order catalog.

Mike Bouchet, Sir Walter Scott, 2010, wood on carpet, installation view

Mike Bouchet, Sir Walter Scott, 2010, wood on carpet, installation view

Mike Bouchet, Black Tie, 2009, 4.5 kms anodized chain with polished stainless steel anchor

Mike Bouchet, Sir Walter Scott, 2010, wood on carpet, datailed installation view

Mike Bouchet, Sir Walter Scott, 2010, wood on carpet, detailed installation view

Mike Bouchet, Sir Walter Scott, 2010, wood on carpet, installation view

Mike Bouchet, Sir Walter Scott, 2010, wood on carpet, installation view

Mike Bouchet, Sir Walter Scott, 2010, wood on carpet, installation view

Mike Bouchet, Sir Walter Scott, 2010, wood on carpet, installation view

Mike Bouchet, Sir Walter Scott, 2010, wood on carpet, installation view

Mike Bouchet, Sir Walter Scott, 2010, wood on carpet, installation view

Mike Bouchet, Young Lochinvar, 2010, 51 x 64 cm
Keglon
The sculptures Keglon are oversized 14 liter glass cola bottles standing atop artwork shipping crates. These isolated figures of consumerism are full of contradictions. Bouchet creates a surreal homage to the ubiquitous plastic American 2 liter cola bottle, appropriating them as art.

Mike Bouchet, Keglon 6 Pack (Atem 2), 2016, hand blown glass, 3D printed plastic cap, 55 x 20,7 x 20,7 cm

Mike Bouchet, Keglon 12 Pack (Cress), 2016, hand blown glass, 3D printed plastic cap, 55 x 20,7 x 20,7 cm

Mike Bouchet, Keglon 24 Pack (Servise), 2016, hand blown glass, 3D printed plastic cap, 55 x 20,7 x 20,7 cm

Mike Bouchet, Keglon Bottle (Hexanol cis-3), 2016, hand blown glass, 3D printed plastic cap, 55 x 20,7 x 20,7 cm

Mike Bouchet, Keglon Bottle (Mountain), 2016, hand blown glass, 3D printed plastic cap, 55 x 20,7 x 20,7 cm

Mike Bouchet, Keglon Bottle (Regina), 2016, hand blown glass, 3D printed plastic cap, 55 x 20,7 x 20,7 cm

Mike Bouchet, Keglon Bottle (The Do), 2016, hand blown glass, 3D printed plastic cap, 55 x 20,7 x 20,7 cm

Mike Bouchet, Keglon Bottle (Zip), 2016, hand blown glass, 3D printed plastic cap, 55 x 20,7 x 20,7 cm
Jacuzzis
Mike Bouchet’s Jacuzzis are first built from cardboard and then coated with fiberglass and paint. The shapes and sizes of the Jacuzzis are derived from crude sketches of shapes designed to hold a human form, though often in eccentric or uncomfortable positions. They function as small scale architectural forms, in which the person can imagine him or herself floating. Though these Jacuzzis are sculptural, they can hold water and be outfitted to function like any commercial jet-water whirl-pool. The first Jacuzzis were made in 1998, and Bouchet continues to design and produce them for various celebrities around the world.

Mike Bouchet, David Kissinger Jacuzzi, 2012, fiberglass resin, cardboard, enamel paint, 122 x 185 x 297 cm

Mike Bouchet, Elon Musk Jacuzzi, 2014, fiberglass, cardboard, latex paint, plywood, shopping cart, "Full Moon" mineral water bottles, 124 x 205 x 149 cm

Mike Bouchet, Kim K. Jacuzzi, 2014, fiberglass, cardboard, latex paint, 114,5 x 194 x 212 cm

Mike Bouchet, Lauren Bush Lauren Jacuzzi, 2013, fiberglass resin, cardboard, enamel paint, 2 steel sawhorses, white carpet, steel carjack, 106 x 106 x 290 cm

Mike Bouchet, Lewis Hamilton Jacuzzi, 2015, fiberglass, cardboard, polyester resin, latex paint, "Head & Shoulders" shampoo bottles, 122 x 205 x 150 cm

Mike Bouchet, Mickey Rourke Jacuzzi, 2014, fiberglass, cardboard, latex, paint, 105 x 170 x 145 cm

Mike Bouchet, Olsen Twins Jacuzzi, 2010, fiberglass resin, cardboard, enamel paint, beige carpet, 325 x 137 x 115 cm
Energy Log
The sculpture “Energy Log”, is a large cylindrical candied gelatin sculpture: 70 cm in diameter, 165 cm long, and nearly 700 kilograms in weight. It is the world’s largest gummy candy. “Energy Log” was cast by Mike Bouchet himself in his studio, using a stabilized form of candied gelatin, and flavored with energy drink aroma and color.

Mike Bouchet, Energy Log, 2018, candied gelatin, flavored with energy drink aroma, color, 165 x 70 cm, 700 kg, installation view Gallery Sofie Van de Velde

Mike Bouchet, Energy Log, 2018, candied gelatin, flavored with energy drink aroma, color, 165 x 70 cm, detail view

Mike Bouchet, Energy Log, 2018, candied gelatin, flavored with energy drink aroma, color, 165 x 70 cm, installation view Gallery Sofie Van de Velde

Mike Bouchet, Energy Log, 2018, edition, candied gelatin, flavored and coloured with energy drink aroma, engraved stainless steel plate, 30 x 20 cm
A-Hole Sculptures

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Shield 2, 2014, automotive enamel, latex paint, fiberglass resin and energy syrup and gelatin on aluminum, 118 cm diameter

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Shield 1, 2014, automotive enamel, latex paint, fiberglass resin and energy syrup and gelatin on aluminum, 118 cm diameter

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Shields Bombing Target (double), 2014, mixed media collage on metal board, 120 x 210 cm

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Shields Bombing Target (red, blue, white), 2014, mixed media on metal board, 145 cm diameter

Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Shields Bombing Target (red, blue), 2014, mixed media on metal board, 120 cm diameter
Untitled
The original artwork is a four channel projection with a running time of 10 minutes. The video was created by compositing 10,000 separate adult videos into a mosiac. Each individual video runs for 10 minutes. The original artwork can be projected up to 60ft in diameter.
Love Dive
From September 15-18, 2017, Mike Bouchet realised the site specific sculpture Love Dive (Diet Pelican Froth) in the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. For this artwork, Bouchet filled the city’s municipal fountain entirely with diet cola. The “Pelicans’ Fountain” in Plovdiv holds approximately 70,000 liters of soda and has a central jet that pumped diet cola over 10 meters high into the air.
Flat Desert Cola Pool
Flat Desert Cola Pool Selects (2010) has a running time of 120 minutes, and features all of the selected footage of the video shot on July 5, 2010 in a swimming pool filled with 100,000 liters of Diet Cola.
16×9 Action Film
This video shows a 15 second segment of the opening, middle and end sections of Mike Bouchets, “16×9 Action Film” from 2007. The original film was made from compositing 144 action films in a 16 across, 9 high grid. Composited at 4K resolution, and with all 144 audio tracks mixed into a single stereo track.The original piece can be projected up to 17 Meters wide.