inspiration

Third summer in Chassy

Back to Paris for work. The temperature rises to 42 °. Overwhelmed by the heat, I dream with noisy waves and blue sea.

Water the garden right away. The freshness of the wet soil reminds me of my childhood, the smell of waking up at dawn and hearing the noise of the hose on the gravel. The sea smells like a watermelon. We collected figs when returning from the beach.

Arrive early in Chassy to dive into the frozen river and place the headache-head underwater to recover.

New York

I had the pleasure of meeting with my sister Estelle Fournier Artistic Adviser in Partner in Art, Co-Chair in Summit Public Art in New York. We share our passion for Contemporary Art. We went together to the Whitney Biennale and visited King Storm Park last May. A deep friendship came along with the projects we made and into the Art we love.

Mayan Pyramids

The architecture of the Mayan Pyramids inspire me by their simplicity and complex geometry. Built with the same principles. North-South; East-West, as an organized and hierarchical civilization.

I see sculptures in my current work on pedestals, exhibitions, balloons, reliquaries, scenography and ambience in space. The harmonious connection of levels and staircases made my mind creates different kind of forms and materials.

Paris Contemporary Drawing Fair

Sunday is the last day. In this season everybody is outside for the first sunny day of the year.

It is crowded, so many people waiting for the drawings, quite warm, a lot of noise, a lot of words. My eyes stares and ramble on the geometric, elaborated and minimalist pieces. It is beautiful, poetic and controlled.

Albert Einstein “The perfection in method and the ultimate aim confusion seems to define our time”. We have the right to ask ourselves what is the perfect method.

Confusing concepts. The commonly used concepts are crashed by senses. The concept is not enough and it can not replace the work.

Avelines museum

My future workspace allows me to work, collaborate and share with other artists meanwhile I can keep my personal space. I can also feel this sharing in my way through artistic residences.

I respond to collaborative calls projects such as the created for a CRAFT research and creation residency in which the proposed theme was: woven porcelain (3D printing and fabrics).

I also like to work with children, the friends of the Avelines museum and participate in their workshops or open them the doors of my workshop, make the sculptures and show them the different stages of the art work. I wish I could continue this in Chassy.

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The calcined sculptures

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It snows. I write from my bedroom.

Look into the past? I prefer to look forward!

Then move forward and re-appropriate the past.

We read in the stories and legends where the heroes to reach the love of the princess, they must cross a dark forest full of danger. It cannot take another way. It is the path of initiation.

The monsters walk freely in the workshop: I have good company; I have to choose what to take and what to leave.

The calcined sculptures. Aligned as soldiers. Filled with dust.

Made in 2008. Varnished in wood oven. I remember trying to capture the dark charcoal and the subtle grays and whites of the ash. In this time I burned everything. Fascinated by the colors in black and infinite whites. It's a pretty dramatic picture of death. I knew it was not a road where I would stay for a long time. Here we have a picture of burnt lemons.

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In Saint-Cloud Studio.

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In Saint-Cloud Studio.

Ceramics and fabrics.

I return to 2017's piece of art called Le reliquaire jaune (the yellow reliquary): anatomy of a small flyer. Porcelain, fabrics, coloring and wood. Each piece is wrapped in cloth, labeled and classified.
Against the hardness of the porcelain, the precision of the stretched lines, the definite, the definitive. The splintering made me feel overwhelmed, the softness of the fabric, the silkiness, the mystery in the transparent, the cover.
Due to the invading disorder, I need to classify, make a list and arrange things.
It is a necessity.

Model for the Tree of life.

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The earth and the tree

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This 2018 art work proposes another association of materials: ceramics and wood. The earth and the tree. The wooden sticks contribute to the strength and stability of the Circles. The circular and the linear. They also allow the assembly in different ways like a game. They are cells, living organisms. Plants as well as planets as individuals.

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North wind

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Inspired by color and working on it.
Dead natures.
White porcelain. The painting, the color seemed to be out from my imagination, here it is, enriched and vital.

At the 17th century, the paint, the architecture, the furniture, the fabrics, the tapestries and the beginning of the 18th century, the Enlightenment.

Different forms, colors, materials, ideas, another vision of man, society and the world.

After antiquity, Roman art finally brings to an end the Middle Ages.

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Back-to-work

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Phase 2 at Chassy, focused on the studio.
The walls are 1.5 m thick. All these stones filled two walls of large stones carved on one side. We took the stones from the closer quarry and carved them in the visible part.

Ocher limestone region between the Puisaye sandstone and the Morvan granite.
In the meantime, same as last year, i settled in the future hall. We find instinctively the atmosphere of the XVII century colors, both dark and bright. Heavy red, pink and blue ochres. Colors of Wermeer
My work is shared between Saint-Cloud, Chassy and Mexico that I will find in February 2019.

Centaur

This porcelain sculpture made in a 3D printer is also a centaur portrait for a gift. This portrait is inspired by the work of the Remains Fields realized for Archéologies du Futur where I recall the excavation fields which inspires me so much. The porcelain reminds me of marble. We picture this sculpture as a part of an Imaginary Museum.

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