L'eau du jardin
Étienne Bossut is particularly receptive to the beauty of mass-produced industrial objects: metal drums, piping elements, tyres, and gas bottles are among his favourite motifs. Using his favoured process of reproduction by hot moulding, for this piece he uses a can, an everyday, trivial, and industrial object, to which he gives dignity by using multiple examples and seeking chromatic harmony amongst them. He thus avoids any illusionistic effect by modifying the colour of the object used as a model. The title of the work, which is always meaningful for the artist, imbues the sculpture with a form of poetry by recalling the primary function of the moulded object: to contain water. Bossut’s sculptures capture a lost state of the object they imitate. They are artefacts in an archaeology of the present time and of industrial society.
Text written by Marianne Tricoire as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibition
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 13 Sep to 03 Nov 2007