Alain Rivière-Lecœur, visual artist, defines his work as “photo-sculpture”. Making a link and a binder between the earth and the flesh, between the stone and the flesh, feel the skin sweat, vibrate under the envelope.
Frozen bodies in full motion …
While drawing inspiration from genesis and mythology, the great painters Théodore Géricault, Botero, as well as the great sculptors, Rodin, Gustave Fréderic Michel, dance is also at the center of his work: the movement, the position of the entangled bodies are essential points in his work.
EARTH FLESH
The Chairs de terre project draws inspiration from multiple choreographies. To merge the body and the material, to reveal the bodies by the matter, from the crude to go towards the delicacy and the detail.
These bodies are changing. It’s a kind of metamorphosis, we do not know if creatures turn into humans or fossilize.
The frescoes of Chairs de terre are a story of death but also an incredible story of love and rebirth …
STONE FLESH
Man and stone, mineral intimacy.
Minerals have always fascinated men and aroused their curiosity.
The stone gives birth to humans, mineralized naked bodies.
Suspended in amniotic sacs, ready to be extracted from the stone uterine gallery.
It is about fusing the bodies with their environment so that they become one with the stone.
We can see a mimetic mechanism, which, like the chameleon, merges with its environment.
It’s like a game of interlocking and material.
In Chairs de pierre, the bodies are welded, sculptured photographically on the rock.
These two projects are a hymn to the earth, to the human, to the fragility of our presence on Earth but also to the desire for eternity.
“When you pull on a thread of nature, you discover that it is attached to the rest of the world,” John Muir.
Alain Rivière-Lecœur reminds us that we are all connected to our Earth, it gives us everything that we are, creators, artists, inventors …
Biennale PARISARTISTES : Alain Rivière-Lecœur
4th to 6th October 2019
Bastille Design Center et Espace Commines
17 Rue Commines
75003 Paris
