THE BASEBOARDS

Under the cantilever are lots of old wooden beams. Many of them were used to build the acoustic chamber of the sound studio. They are probably from an old structure, but when were they made? I don't know. Like the stones we used, we use now and we will use it again. The baseboard is part of the sculpture.
Working on this old oak tree is like playing music on a beautiful instrument. The heart of the wood is hard and dense never attacked by insects as the sapwood. I take it off with an old tool; the oak and its wavy lines are revealed 40, 80, 120, 180... sanding reveals the secrets of the wood. It’s magical !

Journal ... One cross per day

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 …… 40

Forty days and forty nights. It rained forty days and it rained forty nights as in the Louis Armstrong song.

On March 9 I started up the 3D printer. The more days go by, the more the sound and noise of the compressor drilling into my head annoy me, just like the threat of COVID 19. Impossible not to think about it. I chain crosses and crosses that look like a military cemetery. This is not my purpose, I create and assemble modules, all identical and all different at the same time.
It is true, in the end, the artist always tells the same story, writes the same book ... I move forward while I am in quarantine: I go to number 25.

New partnership projects

New partnership projects; sound, music, pictures, sculptures.

The new world of Charlotte PERRIAND

The new world of Charlotte PERRIAND at the LVMH Foundation: A proposal of Arts synthesis with Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Picasso, Fernand Léger, Hartung. Useful forms, art directly inspired by nature and its curves.
Another, The Art of living, this work invites us to think about the impact of art in our lives.

Until the 17th century, there were no assigned spaces, all the pieces had the same surface; functioning as a bedroom the closed beds to which we went up at night, as a dining room where we dressed the table, a room where we received people. No sewer, no heating, no water service, no electricity: being able to install anywhere.
When we travel, we take our furniture with us. I love this way of being nomads, those modular, multifunctional spaces that drive us into a movement and into living life in common.
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Re-opening of the Modern Art Museum after works. Hans Hartung: The Gesture factory. Large and clear spaces resonating with the hessian. Intense, solid and free. Spontaneous and orderly. The color of the background is infinitely bright, endless blacks. Those are the hessian to live inexhaustibly.

Life and work

One place can bring life and work together. As in the theater: the unity of space, unity of time, unity of action.
I see all the same, the same furniture painted in white. An expanded room. Gulliver in the country of Lilliput. Alice in Wonderland.
We can say the Workshop is in progress: to appropriate the light and space of point 8FW58N53 + JR.

Chassy's castle-farm has the name of Gallo-Roman: Cassius' house.
In U with the sunset of the sun. The days there are longer.

Thursday, November 14
Rainy weather, 1°, mud everywhere. Excavation work continues.
The mezzanine heaters were turned on since this morning. Friday, November 15. It snowed this morning.
At 3 in the afternoon, I cross the hall with the rain, I had my briefcase (portable office for months), my computer, the vacuum, rags, a coffee and a bottle of water.
6:27 pm the music player is connected: Lana del Rey Ultraviolence. Tomorrow boxes.
Saturday, November 16.
9 am a warm and beautiful light welcomed me. The arrangements continue. The piles of boxes seem endless. I throw things, I classify files.
Tuesday, November 19: plans, easels arrived this morning and tomorrow desk chairs will. That's it. It's done.

Go downstairs with the astronaut suit that attacks me while I am making the distribution of the Great Workshop, an extensive isolated space but without heating, that is another story. Go on! We started.

Move

September 20, 2019, has been a great day for Chassy. In the morning the moving trucks and Portugal frames arrived. It was a hard day. The moving was fast and methodical. On the very next day, the windows and doors were quickly placed.

Friday back to place. The frames were already assembled despite a problem with the arch of the doors that left a 10 cm gap. We consider this construction phase as over. It was a decisive step.

My nieces arrive from the United States

I'm happy to show them Chassy. A beautiful journey full of humor imagined by the 18-year-old Margot Lopez-Silvero and Amaya Lopez-Silvero her muse for a few hours. The cinema of the 50s is not far away!

Taking place: The workspace

Workspace: An organized, functional, tidy and equipped place. Each situation must be resolved effectively, each movement finds its tool.

The works are late. We have an open space; My office seems to be small, without shelves. Cartons and boxes.

The arrival of children changes every mood; in a few minutes, they fill the working place into an ideal space for games, in a dreamed velodrome. We made tents, for the bike, for the skateboard; We camped, played and did picnic even when it rained.

It is also a change of environment for my sculptures who amazed observe everything.

Moving the workplace

Moving the workplace, office, shelves, library, ovens, and piano. What to say about it? Dismantle the decoration and lift it somewhere else? It is better to look at the place in a different way. See things from a new angle. In my case, to go there even if it is not ready. At the last moment, the shelves did not fit in the truck. With a month late, the frames are not installed. I know it's normal and I don't want to worry about it. Go ahead, let's go.

The mountains of wood, beams, and boards that we have in place will serve as shelves and work plans.

In one week we have sanded 42 beams! We have optimal conditions working covered and outdoors. Children also take care of space by seeing things from another angle, in their way.

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.

Working on the cross

Following pieces from 2018. While I was working on the cross tissue, a small assistant came to me very focused. To go down to the work space is a waited moment.

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.

Art Studio

It gets dark earlier every day. The sun goes behind the hill. The Art Studio continue with the reflectors light. I still listen to my owl: in spite of everything, live every day, every step, do not be impatient.

The road is long but enriching, full of energies, teachings and discoveries.

Essential.

It is an initiation path.

The calcined sculptures

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.

In Saint-Cloud Studio.

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.

The earth and the tree

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.

North wind

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.

Back-to-work

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.

The Menines

In this sculpture I wanted to develop the subject of envols in a different way and make them travel in time. I also wanted to mix techniques like molding or modeling and 3D printing. Here is the cat's head of the Egyptian goddess Bastet, the large dress that recalls the Menines, and the wings/arms of the petits envols (small flyers).

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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