Catégorie : Public space

Public space Photon Propagation, model Synthetic model, Balsa 40 x 40 x 30 cm + infography, 2016 To describe a photon, as we have seen, the physicist uses mathematics. What do mathematics do ? To describe with efficiency this photon propagation, mathematicians split the ‘real’ world into another world that permits understanding it. They attract…

Public space Lumen Poem Wooden trellis, 9 x 8 x 7 meters, 1984, Rosny-sur-Seine The Hospice Saint Charles in Rosny-sur-Seine offered the opportunity to work in a very pure environment of classical architecture, the Swiss architect Froelicher’s only work. The basis of this experiment was to create a « shadow making machine » : a kind of…

Public space Ligeti, détail Steel, 6 x 13 x 21 meters, Rectorat de Rouen, Rouen, 1993 In his comments about his compositions, Edgar Varese often refers to geometry. He speaks of the movement of sonorous planes and masses varying in intensity and density:  » Once these sounds collide, the resulting phenomena are penetration and repulsion ».…

Public space Terrasse du musée de la toile de Jouy, 2 Concrete, plants, 50 x 75 meters, Jouy-en-Josas, 1989 At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the freshly painted toiles de Jouy were spread out to dry in the surroundings fields. A painting bu Jean-Baptiste Huet, shows how the landscape created by the drying strips…

Public space Status Wooden trellis, 10 x 6 x 7 meters, Jardins de l’Evêché, Limoges, 1988 If it is true that all things have both an internal and external existence, it is rare, nevertheless, to simultaneously perceive both the interior and exterior of an object. The mind may conceivably be able to contemplate all of…

Public space Héloise Treillage métallique et végétation, 9 x 15 m, 1988, square Héloise et Abelard, Paris, France A frame work provides the face of a dial on which a polygonum, a honeysuckle and a wisteria indicate the time, their own.

Public space Meeting Sara 581 x 223 x 223 cm, Wood and vegetation, 1981

Public space Rayon, 2 Circles, aluminium, Ø 113 cm sealed on floors and ceilings of the Centre culturel Français, Damascus, Syria, 1986 When contemplating the complex designed by José Oubrerie for the French Cultural Center in Damascus, Syria, the richness of its structure, the intricacy of its overlap and the articulation of its volumes, I…

Public space Projet pour l’atelier Brancusi Dessins, planche 40 x 30 cm, Projet non réalisé pour le passage menant à l’atelier Brancusi, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1978

Public Space Vicenza Collaboration avec Arnaud Fougeras Lavergnolle, 420 x 420 x 420 cm, Hôtel de Sully, 1978