2023-09-08 13:50:00
All except one which remains, Place Maurice Servais, between the dry fountain and the Kiosque de Namur. The French artist, who exhibited his “large format” sculptures for the first time in Belgium this summer, decided to offer the City of Namur “Trajectoire”, a cobalt blue aluminum sculpture measuring more than 3 meters in height. height.
The Culture department indicates: “It was following visiting the Walloon capital last fall at the invitation of the City’s Culture department that Francis Guerrier imagined this summer exhibition: five sculptures and two monumental installations, i.e. seven inhabited spaces in the city to which was added an exhibition at the Les Bateliers museum center. Francis Guerrier works mainly from sheets of metal that he cuts and shapes. He does not seek abstraction, but on the contrary, tries to get closer to the original forms. Like other artists who have transformed the city center, as part of Namur Confluent Culture (Nicolas Eres and his giant ants, Bob Verschueren and his ephemeral works interacting with the environment), the French artist finds in nature his source of inspiration.”
And the artist clarifies: “By honoring the material, by respecting its energy, its spring, its possible curvature, I achieve balance, harmony, I find nature there. And it is her, in her purity but also her complexity which is my first inspiration. The curves, the moons, the trajectories and especially the spirals so often present in nature, from shells to galaxies, are my writing.”
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