The Skeleton Has Always Been a Building Site - Ottone Radavi at Pop Up Gallery
Pop Up Gallery Presents Ottone Radavi’s Rebone organizm’os in Paris
Rebone organizm’os is a modular sculptural construction set of bone-like resin elements connected through enlarged spherical joints, assemblageable into skeletal structures, temporary organisms, and improvised architectural forms.
Rebone organizm'os
Artist: Ottone Radavi
Exhibition: Rebone organizm'os
Venue: Pop Up Gallery
City: Paris, France
Dates: May 3, 2026 – May 6, 2026
Curator: Olga Pogasova
Photography: Ottone Radavi
Image Courtesy: Courtesy Ottone Radavi
Ottone Radavi sculpted each component digitally in Blender, printed it in resin, and post-processed it by hand, the catalogue of parts includes bones, organs, virus-like forms, and other fragments drawn from the artist's own reality.
Ottone Radavi : (left) Structure 0.5 + (right) Structure 0.8 resin, 3D-printed, hand-finished, 2026. Rebone organizm'os, Pop Up Gallery, Image courtesy of the artist
Ottone Radavi : Structure 0.3 - resin, 3D-printed, hand-finished, 2026. Rebone organizm'os, Pop Up Gallery, Image courtesy of the artist
The configurations on view were assembled by Radavi. They are not fixed sculptures, but temporary configurations assembled from a larger collection of separately produced bones, organs, virus-like forms, and other elements connected through the same system of spherical joints. Future presentations will hand that task to visitors, turning the installation into a collective act of physical reconstruction.
When the ground shifts often enough, a person stops expecting permanence and starts building structures that can be taken apart. That is what these sculptures propose, not a body restored, but a body renegotiated.
The sculptural system externalises a fragmented internal state as a temporary exoskeleton, the bones are outside the body now, modular, interchangeable, available for reassembly. What holds them together is not permanence but joint and pressure.
Ottone Radavi : Structure 0.3 - resin, 3D-printed, hand-finished, 2026. Rebone organizm'os, Pop Up Gallery, Image courtesy of the artistOttone Radavi : Structure 13 - resin, 3D-printed, hand-finished, 2026. Rebone organizm'os, Pop Up Gallery, Image courtesy of the artist
Pop Up Gallery presents Rebone organizm'os by Ottone Radavi, curated by Olga Pogasova, through May 6, 2026.
The Curatorial Note by Olga Pogasova
“Rebone organizm’os” is a participatory sculptural construction set created by Ottone Radavi.
It consists of modular bone-like elements connected through enlarged spherical joints. These components can be assembled into skeletal structures, temporary organisms and improvised architectural forms.
The project emerged from forced migration and psychological instability. Radavi lived and worked in Moscow until the beginning of the war, then relocated to Israel and later to France after war disrupted both environments.
This repeated loss of stability led to the idea of rebuilding oneself through physical metaphor. The sculptural system externalizes a fragmented internal state as a temporary exoskeleton.
The abstract bone forms move between contemporary sculpture, biological fantasy, protective structure and construction kit.
All sculptures are modular construction kits made from interchangeable elements — bones, organs, viruses, and other fragments of the author’s reality — digitally sculpted in Blender, resin 3D printed, post-processed by hand, and assembled into these temporary structures.
The current exhibition presents configurations assembled by the artist. In future presentations, viewers will independently reassemble “the artist’s skeleton,” turning the installation into a collective therapeutic process through physical interaction.
Ottone Radavi , resin, 3D-printed, hand-finished, 2026. Rebone organizm'os, Pop Up Gallery, Paris. Photo: Ottone Radavi - Structure 0.1 (left) + (right) Structure 0.6 - Image Courtesy of the artist
Ottone Radavi : Structure 13 - resin, 3D-printed, hand-finished, 2026. Rebone organizm'os, Pop Up Gallery, Image courtesy of the artist
Ottone Radavi : Structure 13 - resin, 3D-printed, hand-finished, 2026. Rebone organizm'os, Pop Up Gallery, Image courtesy of the artist
Instagram Olga Pogasova**** Ottone Radavi on Instagram
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