Jean-Michel Gasquet and Jean-Patrice Rozand

In a friendly dialogue with Jean-Patrice Rozand, Jean-Michel Gasquet developed a sculptural approach to his painting. In his white works, diaphanous or slightly gray forms are like totems emerging from the mist. These angles, crescents, and lozenges strangely recall the different facets that Jean-Patrice Rozand's sculptures reveal depending on the chosen viewing angle. At first glance, Jean-Patrice Rozand's sculptures, due to their material, Corten steel, give an impression of massiveness, but upon closer contemplation, they reveal a great fragility, an almost ethereal quality, resulting from a precarious balance.

Indeed, if we observe the bases of support in Jean-Patrice Rozand's works, they are sometimes minimal, but even when the base is firmly on the ground, it is along the vertical axis that a sense of imbalance is created, giving an impression of fragility. While the piece may initially be a fuller, more compact form, the work often rests on just a few points, lending it a certain lightness. This is precisely what Jean-Michel Gasquet has managed to translate onto the flat surface, using graphic elements to reveal the fragility and light tones against a white background to accentuate the airy quality.
This exhibition is an encounter, a harmonious dialogue between the work of a sculptor and that of a painter.