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How do you tell a tragic, complex story in a single figure? How do you contain the power of desire and the fabric of a human life in matter? Samuel Perche responds to these challenges with a sculpture that presents a man lying on his back, leg bent, inspired by a photograph of a migrant who died at sea, taken by Aris Messinis.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>

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For philosopher Giorgio Agamben, the legendary Greek statues that break their shackles to begin moving break a \u201cligatio\u201d, a paralyzing power that is at work in every image. They give back to the image the freedom of gesture. As here, the image is that of a movement of the whole body, which arches its back and offers itself to the infinity of the sky, between ecstasy and imminent, almost certain or already-occurred death. We are dealing with a gesture in the broadest sense of the word, with the intention of a movement that cannot be enclosed. The wooden man is too large to be entirely consumed by the sculptor's creative appetite or devoured by the public eye. With its scale and ancient inspiration, it leads us to look beyond, to Greek myths, towards an epic destiny with which today's refugees merge, taking to the sea to fulfill their destiny and often ending up as martyrs of the waves.<\/p>

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The wooden man \/\u00a0<\/strong>Pallet wood lacks the nobility of the marble used in Renaissance sculpture. These sculptures manifested an ideal order, an eternity of forms and ideas. On the other hand, the pallet reminds us of our current existence, of life in its ephemeral and precarious character, and of the idea that we fight to survive by reappropriating fallen materials.<\/p>

Through the wooden planks, an intermediate material emerges. Structured like a skeleton but smooth and soft like a skin, the wood of the sculpture synthesizes the impossible union of bone and flesh. The variations in color mimic the upheavals of life. An impression of roundness arises from the whole, which is nevertheless composed of angles and flat, rectangular shapes. Capturing in a material that resists and cannot be molded (pallet wood) a symphony, a possibility of assembling into curves and tending towards sensuality, is an artist's gamble.<\/p>

The intelligence of forms and curves then unfolds elsewhere, in the interstices, the points of contact of these assemblages, where elements converge and detach to enter into new arrangements, where gesture gives birth to movement. The artist positions himself behind what is visible to offer us the impression of life. Or rather, his interpretation of existence. He shares with us an intuition of movement, of intense and ecstatic existence, the conception of a body unified in a single gesture.<\/p>

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Becoming body \/\u00a0<\/strong>Constructing desire as something dense, gradually unfolding, and requiring a whole series of gestures from the artist\u2014this is the tour de force of this work. The sculptor performs several actions: dismantling, carrying, positioning, nailing, balancing\u2026 in a demiurgic posture. He imparts to the wood the trace of his efforts, while allowing the material to live. His entire body engages in the work to give substance to the sculpture. And his gestures converge in the coherence of the whole.<\/p>

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The rigidity of the wood, the suggested curves and twists, convey several things in a single movement and a single form: the story of a man, his ocean crossing, the fate of migrants washed up on the beach, or, by extension, the tragic end of the man who desires the world and bows before the sky, as if imploring its power. Let us see this sculpture as a breath that gives life to forms and curves. Through this breath, the sculptor becomes one with his work. The wooden man feeds on his expectations and desires, and together they combine psychic energy and physical strength. The drama is exorcised in a meaningful form: the man's body, facing the sky, in a position of both pleasure and despair, a tribute to the hope of a better life.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Sculpter l\u2019indicible Aude-Emmanuelle Hoareau, 2017 Philosophe (1978-2017) Comment raconter une histoire tragique et complexe, en une seule figure ? Comment contenir dans la mati\u00e8re la puissance du d\u00e9sir et la trame d\u2019une vie humaine ? Samuel Perche r\u00e9pond \u00e0 ces d\u00e9fis par un travail de sculpture qui nous pr\u00e9sente, de mani\u00e8re assez figurative, un homme […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2041,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6533","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nSamuel Perche – Artiste Peintre Contemporain<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"D\u00e9couvrez l'univers artistique de Samuel Perche, artiste peintre contemporain homosexuel queer et militant LGBTQIA+.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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