my first exhibition
translated with Goggle traduction
there’s more to life than computers
photo Virginie Gourin
Gala (unforgotten dog) accompanies me this day in 2007 to set up my first personal exhibition on rue de Seine at the Galerie Sparts.
Departure from the workshop of the exhibited pieces Galerie Sparts
After the computer industry, I mainly worked on public art projects. Laurent Deschamp is the first gallery owner to be interested in my studio works.
When I arrive in Paris, I imagine that there are many of us artists exploring the knowledge and possibilities of the time. Wrong!
In the 80s as today, there are few slightly technical artists who are shown in exhibitions. And the courageous galleries that have the audacity to exhibit them are even rarer.
Easy to buy, but formidable to tame: computers are not an easy choice. You need a matching spouse, imagination, a scientific background, a lot of perseverance and above all friends who know the multitude of things you don’t know.
I’m quite happy to have reached the age of 75. An age where an artist can hope to work more peacefully.
A little treat: for my birthday, I plan to talk about my years spent imagining and creating all these joyfully useless things in this blog.
Telling you all this is even better when I think of the bogeymen that “serious” people have committed with the little things that I like.
These memories are so vivid in my head that I tell them in the present tense. It’s the story of chance to seize and of time passing. It must be said that with light and dream, time is the main ingredient of my beloved Luchrones, as well as astrolabes.
“Luchrones” is a name invented by my wife. Lux is the Latin word for light and Chronos the name of the Greek god of Time.