Tricolore 2
In 2015, Jean-Luc Moulène carried out a collaboration with Cirva (International Research Centre for Glass and Plastic Arts) in Marseille. He experimented with this material with Tricolore 2, a blown glass object compressed by a steel structure. The work embodies an imprint of the body, a trace of the worker’s breath constraining the material in order to shape it. At the same time, it evokes important notions in the artist’s language such as disjunction and intersection. Jean-Luc Moulène questions how to form a common space between two elements, in this case glass and steel. According to him, each part exists for itself and remains whole, even when “at the intersection.” The glass and steel of Tricolore 2 thus share a materiality. Their intersection leads to a point of contact with the environment surrounding them thanks to which the work can “be in tune at all its moments, of enunciation as well as of fabrication.”
Text written by Léonie Maton as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibition
Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris (France)
from 05 Apr to 17 Apr 2018