Patman
While he claims to want to “connect the cosmos with his refrigerator” by observing the evolution of food products after their expiration date, Michel Blazy creates a work from everyday consumer products and champions the notion of laissez-faire. By appropriating everyday materials and integrating the living into his work, he gives time pride of place in his creative process. His sculpture Patman, for example, consists exclusively of Asian soy noodles coloured yellow. Its appearance is as monstrous and threatening as it is charming and soothing, recalling a primitive creature as much as a mushroom cloud. This fantastic and supernatural vision is in constant transformation as it continuously generates new materials and colours. The work thus expresses the notion of a metamorphosis of the living and of a creation in the making. The installation is therefore “never a definitive form,” but always a “proposal at a given moment” that calls on our awareness of the future.
Text written by Franny Tachon as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibitions
Galeries Lafayette - Toulouse, Toulouse (France)
from 27 Sep to 26 Oct 2013
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 06 Oct 2011 to 07 Jan 2012
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 13 Sep to 03 Nov 2007
Palais de Tokyo, Paris (France)
from 01 Feb to 06 May 2007
Palais de Tokyo, Paris (France)
from 14 Sep to 31 Dec 2006
Swiss Institute, New-York (États-Unis)
from 24 Jan to 09 Mar 2006