Pastel Sculptures

One artist designs concrete cubes that conceal an architecture. More recently, these cubes have given way to perforated metal panels.
The other assembles flat squares in velvety pastel hues, which appear to overlap, revealing only their edges in a disjointed architecture.

What Yves Popet drowns in his flat planes in search of emptiness, even more present in his pastels, Denis Pondruel conceals in his structures, elusive to the eye: a hiding place, a quiet place.

Both work encourages the viewer to imagine the invisible. What is happening on this sheet covered with black, red, blue, yellow, or gray pastel? Where have the other edges of the squares gone?
Why invite the viewer to descend the stairs into a dark concrete cube, or to cling to the reading of a perforated text, only to discover that ultimately there is nothing but the invisible and the void?

Diane Lahumière