Weights and Measures

A sculptor's drawing is interesting because it is the origin of pure form; it is the sculptor's research laboratory. There, they consider the dimensions, the medium in which they will create the volume, and often one drawing leads to another, and new forms emerge from these developments, as is the case in the work of Jean-Gabriel Coignet. There are what are called classical preparatory studies, like those of Etienne Béothy (1887-1961) or Emile Gilioli (1911-1977), annotated with details, but also the finished drawing for a future project that came to fruition in 1954 in Nancy, as with the work of Jean Gorin (1899-1981) which appears on the invitation card.
And then there is the parallel work of drawing, which has its own distinct identity within the sculptor's practice. Timo Nasseri, for example, constructs his drawings by exploring mathematical formulas originating in the Arab world.
Nathalie Delasalle, a sculptor of white, works with collages of paper in various shades of white, directly engaging with form in her cutouts. Denis Pondruel reveals the hidden face of his concrete cubes, their internal architecture, through his axonometric drawings. André Stempfel prepares the movement of his works in drawn sequences or gives it form in his cut papers.
Finally, for Bauduin, drawing becomes poetry for this surveyor of time, who measures and weighs many things in his work.
These are the many facets of the sculptor's drawing that you can discover at the gallery until April 30th.