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SAPIN VERRE

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2021

Permanent Art Installation

Recycled glass, steel from local architectural waste

Place Pey Berland, Bordeaux, France

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dimensions :

11 meters x 5 meters in diameter

TRANSLATE AN ICON :

Production: Metallerie Bordelaise / Press Citron

Client: Bordeaux City Hall

"Sapin Verre" is a creative representation of the traditional Christmas tree. The work decodes the formal (a cone) chromatic (an iridescent emerald green) textured (with an octagonal shape and ridges) characteristics of the tree to translate this icon into a visual experience to live.

Above all, it is an immersive work, where everyone can observe a set of mirrors that reflects every architectural detail of the square and the cathedral.

This iridescent mirror installation is a work of evocation, it is not a question of reproducing a semblance of reality but on the contrary to sublimate everyday phenomena and to offer a new perception.  The references to the Christmas tree are radical geometric codes, which offer a unique symbolic game of perception to re-enchant the vision of our environment, capturing visual emotions in their most fleeting aspects.

The specificity of a work of art is to introduce emotional experiences by questioning its context: what do we want to evoke? for what purpose? for what sensation? how to create a contact or a distance? how to question the existing and to give it a second skin? the immersive projects allow to detach oneself for a moment from reality to confront one's body, one's senses, one's mind, to a new perspective.  It is about creating surprise and astonishment to establish a dialogue with our own references and cultures.  Art, design and creation are invitations to dialogue.

This Installation is not a work of comparison but of confrontation, it is a question of disobeying fixed looks to discover new evocations, paradoxes or paradigms. This structure of 11 meters obeys these rules, to be inspired by what exists, to evoke a theme, without ever falling into the reproduction or the system. To create; it is to open the eyes, to confront oneself.

The eye first observes the iconic silhouette of the tree in its entirety to finally look at fragments of the city, unstructured visions of the environment that surrounds us. The work proposes a visual immersion.

It is also an intimate work since it offers a mosaic of our own body.

Everyone will be able to make the moment their own by capturing the slightest change in the mood of the day in the hue of the mirrors, focusing on Pey Berland's most delicate details. The mirror will capture every variation of light from the sky and the activity of the square, it is a living work, chameleon-like, that takes on the mood of the day: from green to blue, from yellow to grey. At night, its silhouette and outline disappear in favor of a luminous scenography, that lets the one-way mirrors show through, to celebrate the end of the year festivities. The work invites to an observation day and night, of its living transformation.

WHY NOT A REAL TREE?

"Sapin Verre" takes into account the environmental impacts of the design and development and integrates the environmental aspects throughout its life cycle: from the raw material with recycled and 100% recyclable elements, its life span while passing through a manufacturing, a local logistics within a radius of 40 km around Bordeaux.

The work made of recycled glass from the architectural waste industry and a structure composed of steel easily recyclable, will be reused over several years, limiting and amortizing its carbon footprint and then be loaned to a municipality that cannot afford a tree or be recycled into a semi-finished product.

In a world in crisis, where flora & fauna are suffering the ravages of human disinterest, as citizens we must respect and save the Living and decarbonize each of our actions by reusing the existing. The shortcuts thinking that cutting down a real tree would be more ecological are not so founded: the years to make it grow a giant, the destruction of its ecosystem that it had generated, the chemical fertilizers used for which infiltrate the grounds: the Bio wire for Christmas trees is anecdotal, to finally cut down a giant of almost 7 tons with all the logistics that this implies, transport it from a distant forest by special convoy, just for a life limited to a few weeks to finally be transformed into pallets.

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FRACTAL

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2021

Permanent Art Installation

Materials : Mirrored grade AAA Stainless steel, aluminium

For Suzhou City, Shanghai, China.

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dimension :

H.15000 x l.17000 x L. 550 cm

Commissioned by the city of Suzhou for the development of its new Wuyue living area & coordinated locally by UAP. The studio responded to the desire to create an immersive work of art echoing the plaza architecture, but above all proposing an unusual route that breaks with everyday actions: an artwork placed on a cool area, a pond of reflecting water to propose to passers-by a labyrinthine route made of mosaic reflections and fresh air. A wandering that would allow to take time and to appropriate a new visual, spatial and corporal paradigm. The mirrors play with and confuse our perspective, we feel ourselves being hit by a luminous path, the route echoes the fluidity of water.

FRACTAL invites visitors to stroll in a mirrored environment between azure sky & water. Capturing the delicate movements of light and the changing moods of the sky, the artwork creates the experience of a new fragmented gaze. It’s like slowly observing a new set of visual textures, loosing one’s reference during a walk; it is entering new field of reality for a moment, to feel free in a pixelated parenthesis.

Visitors can walk through the work, to be able to wander freely, to go around in a natural way and to follow the contours and curves of the structure, between effervescent city and calm water.

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CIRCLE

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2021

Permanent Optic Art Installation

Materials : High Density Phosphorescent rope

For Amédée, Bordeaux, France

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dimension :

H.1000 x l.12000 x L. 880 cm

Colors : Phosphorescent light green.

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Island enclosed between city and train station. The "window" is an imaginary perspective framing the railway complex blindly. In this invisible perspective, a present resonance exists between the saturated urban pattern of the Nansouty district & the leaking infrastructures of the Saint Jean station.This frame, reveals its importance to give birth to a work allowing a setting in echo of such a situation.

    Taking into account the historical and urban context of the district: the immediate proximity of the station and its uses, the work will have to be born from this heritage and evoke the notions of frames and superimpositions that evoke a railway station, to allow a graphic and evocative reading while freeing itself from the codes of the station to maximize the polysemic allusions. The work will also have to allow an appreciation of the greatest number without immediately relaying to the image of railroads. The installation shows a weaving of 130 soft green phosphorescent ropes, this network of ropes that splits echoes the railway lines as well as the 260 train departures that the station offers every day. The flexible system, moored at the periphery of the window, like a frame, is stretched obliquely to create a phenomenon of crossings to amplify a new perspective. Each string is tightened by tension in the center to create a disk, a denser object that proposes a second visual breakthrough, becoming a new dynamic. In order to accentuate a phenomenon of vortex, the peripheries of the rope will be treated and painted in order to create a gradient of dark green, to the natural light green of the rope.

Development under progress.

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CUTS

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2021

Ecofriendly Furniture Collection

Materials : High Density Polyethylene with Stone-like finish. Recycled plastic waste panels

For Aybar Gallery. Miami. USA.

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TABLES :

Small     : H20"   W16,5"  D10"   ( H51  W42  D26 cm ) Medium : H18"   W24"     D9"     ( H45  W60  D22 cm ) Large     : H18"   W35"     D11"   ( H45  W90  D28 cm )

CONSOLE:

Size : H35"   W35" / 39" / 47"  D7"   ( H90  W90 / 100 / 120  D18 cm )

Colors : Available in four different patterns.

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         For a second collaboration, Aybar Gallery invited the studio to imagine a unique furniture collection. From the beginning, for Arnaud, the project had to be part of a contemporary action and to describe the creation in an ecological approach, through the use of decorative panels produced with recycled waste. The Cuts collection was born from this desire to be part of an upcycling approach while at the same time giving birth to a strong formal signature and identity to offer objects that are as functional as sculptural.

         Designed using panels from an environmentally virtuous process, reusing plastic waste from consumer industries, the aim was to give volume to flat plates, but also to avoid the traditional assembly typology of the furniture industry to explore a singular aesthetics.The plates are cut and shaped into silhouettes, allowing the personality of the furniture to be sculpted.Like marquetry, each piece is assembled by friction, plate by plate, by accumulation to give body, volume and personality to a future table, stool, bench or wall console.  The accumulation of each piece being random, each piece of furniture will be unique in the series.

         Cuts collection is Exclusively produced by Arnaud Lapierre Studio in Paris 2021 in different sizes, as well as a wide range of patterns and finishes.