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"... I take objects and I put them in tension: it is a question of creating connections between them, of making sentences, of telling a story, but as music tells a story, by creating an unfolding, by playing on shapes, intervals, colors, materials, allowing associations to be made.
I do my best not to have a plot, not to control associations, to remain open to improbable encounters… /…
There is something to do with magic: putting these objects in a force field and experiencing that force on yourself. I take objects from the landfill and put them back in charge… /…
So I would put that down to an inevitable return to childhood, as if the wonder at objects, the fact of playing with them (what are sculptures if not toys that I make and which manufacture?), sent me back to the world of childhood. »… /…
- Extract from a text by JL Bernard
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Born in Dijon in 1943 Lives and works in Saint Pierre d'Allevard, in Isère. Sociologist. Around 1973, begins to make assemblies and sculptures in wood. From 1978, he devoted most of his time to it.
2013
Hébert Museum, Grenoble. Catalog They all came
Espace Larith, Chambéry
Vaugelas Gallery, Aix-Les-Bains
2014
Art and Reason, Grenoble
Heritage House, Villard-de-Lans
2015
La Grange, La Buissière. Catalog The archeology of souls
2016
Ruffieux-Bril Gallery, Chambéry
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