Avignon<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n My first studio\u00a0in Avignon was located above industrial premises. <\/span>Their buckets contained a large number of materials which, although in perfect condition, were destined for destruction. <\/span>Here large formats – 2mx1,50m – rodoid sheets – transparent or opalescent polymer material – On this subject, an event had struck and prompted me in my approach : during a walk on a beach, I had fallen in admiration at what seemed to me to be a wonderfully beautiful sea anemone that had proved to be a good b<\/span>anal base of plastic bags. We see that everything can be sublimated. <\/span>By using and recycling this material from industry, I change its destiny of polluting waste into a support of creation, a state where one’s\u00a0 will not want any more at all to be imperishable!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div> These Rodoid formats, I have explored, exploited the many and sometimes contradictory characteristics. <\/span>Because they are fine, shiny, robust, tear-proof, almost imperishable, but also fragile and sensitive to scratches.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n I handled, painted, cut, glued, superimposed, exposed to the sun, on the ground, rinsed them with water jet, repainted … A series presented between two plates of plexis were scarified by bolts that m<\/span>aintained the structure. <\/span>But also, and above all, I played with them, admired their transparency, their relationship with the elements.<\/span><\/p>\n These leaves are beautiful materials, marvels of technology and chemistry, but in many aspects I refuse to bow to the dictatorship which their impeccable surfaces attempt to impose upon us. <\/span>During all these manipulations, voluntary marks, or not, have begun to surface.<\/span><\/p>\n I claim these marks, scratches or other traces in gesture of resistance to this perfection, those smooth and shiny surfaces for which the real immediately becomes an intrusion. \u00ab Splash<\/a> \u00bb\u00a0 \u00ab Tran\u2019S<\/a> \u00bb\u00a0 \u00ab Barcelona POP<\/a>\u00bb\u00a0 \u00abInstallation<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/div>
\n<\/span>In agreement with my neighbor the industrialist who supported my work, I recovered these sheets. <\/span>They were the support of my creation for several years.
\n<\/span>This is an important point of the process, recovering them, recycling them into works of art. <\/span>It is about giving another life to this industry waste that we use every day and that overwhelms our environment at all.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Great had been my disappointment, see my sadness, but I had also thought: “beauty is everywhere”<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>I claim its hazards and imperfections.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Series from the Sources workshop :
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