Marc Couturier
08 - 23 Jun 2006
MARC COUTURIER
Marc Couturier initiates in his works a deep thought, a sort of metaphysic about the elusive transition from material to immaterial which is figured out through the barest substance and an astonishing tension. His works, utterly pure in their form, belong to those works that claim for contemplation through a careful balance between fullness and emptiness, glossy and mat, liquid and solid.
In his exhibition at Praz-Delavallade, Marc Couturier will present wood blades planted into the wall, as if they were floating in the air.
Five raw blades, five mirages float between the four walls and trace in the space a mysterious geometry where the intangible points are echoing and attracting themselves.
“as always in the realization of these works it seems to me that each shaving which falls is a “bad thought” which flies away. And like always this feeling to polish the moon and to plow the clouds.”
In the work of Marc Couturier the blades are undoubtedly the most perfect expression of the equation between tension and weightlessness, light and materiality, invisible and visible which are the main concern of his work.
© Marc Couturier
Lames, 2006
5 lames
samba
de 120 à 260 cm
Marc Couturier initiates in his works a deep thought, a sort of metaphysic about the elusive transition from material to immaterial which is figured out through the barest substance and an astonishing tension. His works, utterly pure in their form, belong to those works that claim for contemplation through a careful balance between fullness and emptiness, glossy and mat, liquid and solid.
In his exhibition at Praz-Delavallade, Marc Couturier will present wood blades planted into the wall, as if they were floating in the air.
Five raw blades, five mirages float between the four walls and trace in the space a mysterious geometry where the intangible points are echoing and attracting themselves.
“as always in the realization of these works it seems to me that each shaving which falls is a “bad thought” which flies away. And like always this feeling to polish the moon and to plow the clouds.”
In the work of Marc Couturier the blades are undoubtedly the most perfect expression of the equation between tension and weightlessness, light and materiality, invisible and visible which are the main concern of his work.
© Marc Couturier
Lames, 2006
5 lames
samba
de 120 à 260 cm