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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Pascal Convert, Souche de Verdun cristallisée VI, 2024

Pascal Convert FR, b. 1957

Souche de Verdun cristallisée VI, 2024
Verre optique et charbon de bois
65 x 52 x 30 cm
25,59 x 20,47 x 11,81 inches
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© Pascal Convert, Adagp, Paris
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'Des cristaux de temps obtus, venus des champs de bataille de Verdun : les sculptures nées de la vitrification de souches. 'Une souche est bien plus que le socle de...
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"Des cristaux de temps obtus, venus des champs de bataille de Verdun : les sculptures nées de la vitrification de souches. "Une souche est bien plus que le socle de l'arbre. … Elle offre la condition d'un déploiement généalogique, elle apparente l'arbre, lui impose sa forme d'ascendance et de descendance. C'est une base d'évolutions futures, une condition vitale de possibilités encore inconnues. C'est une forme … pour le désir, pour l'angoisse, pour la parenté." (in La demeure, la souche, Georges Didi-Huberman)."

"Sillons gri ant le paysage, les tranchées ont été creusées à travers champs et forêts. Les arbres coupés sur leur tracé, utile matière première, ont été évacués, leurs souches abandonnées sur place. Ces forêts de la Meuse décimées par la guerre de 1914-1918, Pascal Convert les a découvertes en rendant visite à son ami et complice au long cours, le photographe Eric Poitevin, avec qui il venait de se lier d’amitié en Italie à la Villa Médicis, où ils étaient pensionnaires. A l’époque, au tournant des années 1990, on trouvait encore de nombreux vestiges des combats : restes de baïonnettes, de casques, balles, culots d’obus… « Je suis tombé en arrêt devant les éclats au sol, ces cratères devenus des mares et parsemés de souches qui, à force de bombardements, étaient remontées à eur de terre », raconte l’artiste. Dès 1992, il réussit à en récupérer quelques-unes, qu’il enduit, déjà, d’encre de Chine." Emmanuelle Jardonnet dans Le Monde, juillet 2020

Maître verrier : Olivier Juteau

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"Crystals of obtuse time, come from the battlefields of Verdun: sculptures born of the vitrification of tree stumps. "A stump is far more than the tree's base. … It offers the condition for a genealogical unfolding; it binds the tree to its kin, imposing on it its form of ascent and descent. It is a foundation for future evolutions, a vital condition for possibilities still unknown. It is a form … for desire, for anguish, for kinship." (in La demeure, la souche [The Dwelling, the Stump], Georges Didi-Huberman)."

"Furrows clawing at the landscape, the trenches were dug across fields and forests. The trees felled along their path, a useful raw material, were hauled away, their stumps left behind. These forests of the Meuse, decimated by the war of 1914–1918, were discovered by Pascal Convert while visiting his longtime friend and collaborator, the photographer Éric Poitevin, with whom he had just struck up a friendship in Italy at the Villa Medici, where they were both fellows in residence. At the time, around the turn of the 1990s, many traces of the fighting could still be found: remnants of bayonets, helmets, bullets, shell casings… "I stopped in my tracks before the debris on the ground, these craters turned into ponds and dotted with stumps that, from the sheer force of the shelling, had risen back up to the surface," the artist recounts. As early as 1992, he managed to retrieve a few of them, which he coated, even then, with India ink." Emmanuelle Jardonnet in Le Monde, July 2020

Master glassmaker: Olivier Juteau
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