Cast in the Yard

Cast in the Yard was Adrien Vasco’s third exhibition with the gallery and the first to show the large aluminium works alongside the small pieces he calls the evening work.

Vasco casts in a shared yard on the Marseille docks, next to a firm that repairs fishing boats. The material comes from decommissioned port machinery, and the arrangement is entirely practical: the neighbours have the crane, Vasco has the furnace, and the scrap arrives at the gate either way. Nothing about the process is hidden in the result. The sand moulds leave a coarse skin. Bolt holes survive. On Winch (Quai de la Pinède) a cast serial number is legible on the underside, having now been melted twice.

The scale of the large works is set by the crane, which will lift about two tonnes. This is not a conceptual limit and Vasco does not dress it up as one. It is the size of the equipment.

Since 2021 he has also been casting at home, in a small kiln in his apartment, in editions of one. These pieces are between nine and twenty-two centimetres and can be picked up. They were shown in the second room, on a single shelf at eye height, and they are the only objects Vasco has made that do not require a machine to move. He describes them, without apparent irony, as the sculptures he can actually look at.

The exhibition closed on 30 May 2026.