“Le Tour de France”

“Le Tour de France”, 

          27x130x38 cm, combined technique: stoneware/wire/wood, 2010.    

          

"The car that chugs is nicer than winged Victory" is a famous

Futurist’s sentence who proclaimed in their manifesto the

beauty of speed, death of the time and space and life in the

absolute, eternal and all-present speed. And they left a big

trace on my two-year study of motion in the human figure.

My love for French culture and bike racings is interlacing here

with a great period in the history of art, so I use bikers as a tool,

not to present the human form, but the effect of its movement.

In a wish not only to display but also to express movement,

I multiply the human figure and break it down into geometric

forms. I play with the stylized patterns on jerseys with a little

intervention on legs and hands, trying to create a sense of

movement in line.