NOURRITURES TERRESTRES
Water architectures drain and provide the nutrients necessary for life, but also ancestral memory. Under the Château de Fan, roots: At the roots of a writer's inspiration are childhood memories, the family home, the flavors of the land.
"I saw the plain in the summer
wait, wait for a little rain
Nathanael, let every expectation in you
be not even a desire
but simply a reception arrangement.."
"Les nourritures terrestres", André Gide, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947.
In the plain of Jol, the Jardin de la Noria now welcomes this work as a tribute to André Gide’s visit to the region.
"J'AI VU LA PLAINE PENDANT L'ETE", 2021.
steel, leaf gilding, 2021.
Height 1m60, Width 2m50
Permanent installation, Jardin de la Noria, Plaine de Jol, St Quentin la Poterie (Gard)
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This in-situ installation echoes the spectacular branches of the ancient Mediterranean cypress. It evokes the memory of a Greek theatre that would play the family saga.
ÉLOGE DE L'ARBRE, 2021
steel, leaf gilding, Height 2m, Width 3m
Installation, Château Le Plaisir, Aramon
Photos Olli Berry
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A reproduction of the monumental work "Aux racines de l'inspiration" entered the collection of the André Gide room of the Borias Museum in Uzès in 2019.
AT THE ROOTS OF THE INSPIRATION, "LES NOURRITURES TERRESTRES", 2019
Single print, 40x60cm, copper.
Coll. Musée Borias, Uzès. On the right: model
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Under the Château de Fan, roots: At the roots of a writer's inspiration are childhood memories, the family home, the flavors of the land.
AT THE ROOTS OF THE INSPIRATION, "LES NOURRITURES TERRESTRES", 2012-2014
Steel roots, length 12m, Height 4m.
Aiguillon d'Art, Art course in the heart of
nature, Lussan
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2021
Ré-générations, Eloge de l’Arbre, Château Le Plaisir, Aramon
Éloge de l’Arbre, Château Le Plaisir, Aramon
2019
At the roots of the inspiration, « Les nourritures terrestres ».
Photography and copper roots, 40x60cm
Acquisition by the Borias Museum for the hall André Gide, Uzès
2015
At the roots of the inspiration, « Les nourritures terrestres ».
Steel roots, length 12m x Height 4m.
Aiguillon d'Art, Art course in the heart of nature, Lussan
2012
André Gide's portrait, acrylic, H 3m70.
Aiguillon d'Art, Art course in the heart of nature, Lussan