Arche [Arch]

Materials :
Bronze
Dimensions :
180 (h) x 230 (l) x 40 (d) cm
Medium :
Sculpture

Context :
Artwork designed and presented as part of the group exhibition Déjouer les sens, curator Émilie Granjon, in collaboration with the Atelier du bronze d’Inverness and the Jacques-et-Michel-Auger Art Center in Victoriaville, from November 2nd to December 16th, 2017.

The exhibition titled Déjouer les sens (deceiving the senses) highlights the technological advances that make it possible to reveal the current challenges of the art foundry. New artistic foundry practices are developing processes that show surprising ways of working bronze and aluminum. Hence the destabilization that these materials can cause! In this regard, the exhibition addresses the notions of ambiguity, illusion, or perceptual destabilization, applied as much to the dimension of the plastic research of the work as to the figurative dimension. With Marc Dulude, the transformation of nature and materials is expressed in a scientific understanding of the world. Dulude manipulates phenomenological situations to better reveal a state, a reaction, or a transformation of nature. Operating in an intuitive and playful way, he makes accessible what we do not see, creating a tension between “seeing” and “perceiving” the essence of things and their organic aspects. For this project, he focused on the balance point with Arch, a sculpture that captures a moment of action: two palm tree stems twisting to form a graceful arch.