Summer 2011 – Normandie - LIEN ON THE PHOTO ALBUM (Picasa)

A sphere appeared at feet of the cliffs named "Vaches Noires" in between Villers-sur-Mer, Auberville, Gonneville-sur-Mer and Houlgate, in an exceptional wild site ,with its palaeontological wealth revealed by the fragility of its biodiversity.

 


This sphere is built with natural materials collected on site.
Floated woods were ligatured with roots and covered with a mixture of silt, rich in fossils and sold by cliffs, and dry herbs gleaned in the quite close swamps.
Finally dry,the sculpture was coated with linseed oil, to waterproof it.

The construction and the shaping were realized at feet of cliffs nearby streamed water and at good distance of the biggest tidal ranges.
One month was necessary to realize in-situ the sculpture.

This open-air workshop instigated curiosity from walkers and fossils researchers, and so allowed numerous meetings.

 

 


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Presentation of the project " Longitude O ° "

" Longitude O ° " is an artistic course along the meridian,
begun in 2011 and introduced by the visual artist Pierre Guilloteau.



Geodesic link, the meridian of universal time and space references,connects from the North pole to the South pole several countries as: England, France , Spain , Algeria , Mali , Burkina Faso , Togo , Ghana.

The project consists in creating several human-size spherical evolutionary structures.

These polymorphic architectures will be constituted by elements found on the spot which will allow to create a stiff, carrying, well-balanced structure,formed by crossings, by axes and by knots. This set will form a "skeleton" which will be covered with a "flesh" mainly constituted by local lands and fibers.

The human-sized shape is an opened spherical structure. It constitutes one quite united, given rhythm by curves and by edges. It reminds the vegetal, the mineral, the organic. This network of roots or branches can protect in its entrails as well as carry towards the outside.

These spheres will form themselves and will adorn themselves with elements connected to the crossed places. They will allow to weave rich links in geographical and cultural peculiarities.

Technical and artistic collaborations will be proposed in every stage of the project.

Mobile sculpture, space to be invested, this structure invites movements and meetings. There, performances and choreographs will take place. There, movies and animations will get shoot . This work will be meanly focused on space and time.

The next stages french version

 

Pierre Guilloteau, visual artist, ceramist, been born in 1975.

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Catalogue 2011 créations (pdf - 6 Mo)

 

He is the initiator of numerous artistic, ceramic and land-art projects . He intervenes since 2009 within the association " the Source " in Eure (chaired by Gérard Garouste), and with a various public as: school classes, families workshops, prison environment. He is the instigator of "the Ceramic association of Haute-Normandie. "

The plastic-clay is the main material of his creation; installations in - situ, in cliffs of clay, in quarries of brickyard, or thanks to artistic meetings with potters in Mali and in Burkina Faso. He also realizes cooked, raw art pieces, movies and photos.
He likes to reveal multiples facets of this material, its transformations and the carnal relationship which maintains the man for a long time with it.

He exposed several times in collective or individual ways in galleries, exhibitions of contemporary ceramics and historical and cultural places as well in France as abroad.

Meetings in Mali and in Burkina Faso forged deep artistic links and allowed to develop projects since 1997.

The project " Longitude O ° " vocation's is to weave new artistic links along the meridian and create new meetings.

Events in - situ , exhibitions, workshops, paper and internet publications, photos and movies, will be so much means to communicate and develop the project.


00 33 6 98 28 82 43 - http://guilloteau.free.fr