In English, the term "silver lining" refers to the edge of light that shines through even the darkest storm, the very slightest thread of clarity that passes through the densest clouds.
It is around this stubborn beam, this brilliance always stronger than the shadow that the thread of interieORities was born.
Except that the light comes here from within,
That of matter,
Those of the artists
🔅 La Consigne offers its selection of Artists with the common thread of light as they capture it in matter.
🔅 Interiorities: the treasures of light in matter
🔅 6 artists / 6 light paths
Until April 12, 8 rue Bochart de Saron 75009 Paris
From 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. (and appointments if necessary)
From Tuesday to Sunday
Just a short stroll from the Bastille lies one of the treasures of French heritage: the workshops of Rémy Garnier, bronze artist. The house still occupies the same address that sheltered the visionary creativity of its eponymous founder, the Burgundian who was one of the inventors of the cremone bolt.
La Consigne was invited last week by NEWH ( NEWH Collective, acronym for Network of Executive Women in Hospitality, created in 1984 in the United States, it is a network that offers collaboration and training within the hotel industry and which extends its influence brilliantly in Europe) to discover this interlude of enchantment, history and excellence.
The world of cremone bolts has opened up, like an unsuspected universe of delicacy and dreams. We discover these ornaments in a new light and in a variation that seems infinite, cherub, nymph fixing her hair, serpent embracing the jamb, guardian of a medieval sword, creativity seems limitless, the only metronome is a know-how of precision, chiseled in the search for perfection.
Each piece, light fixture or window handle, captures its own universe and exalts admiration and reverie at the same time.
A time suspended in the very heart of perfection.
Chiharu Shiota, a storyteller and poetry weaver, has been sending her arachnid clouds beneath part of the Grand Palais since the beginning of December with an exhibition entitled "The Soul Trembles."
Its monumental installations, worthy of the monument that houses them, unfurl its emblematic silk threads over a 1200 m2 route offering works like successive emotional tableaux to be traversed.
Arch, cocoon, volutes or even whirlpools, the works of the Japanese artist offer us a ballet where precision and confusion harmonize perfectly and of which dreaminess remains the high point.
The one who says she "paints in three dimensions" projects us into her universe which questions, with casual candor, the complexity of human links, intimate networks, between delicacy, distance, tenuous links and solitude.
This titanic work took 10 days of weaving and embroidery to install and offers a unique immersive experience at the heart of Chiharu Shiota's organic and sensitive work.
Grace and poetry as only the Japanese magician knows how to concoct them.
“The soul trembles” Chiharu Shiota
Until March 19, 2025
Grand Palais • 3 Avenue du Général Eisenhower • 75008 Paris
Each new year brings with it its own ebb of resolutions, pious wishes and amendments intended to broaden the horizon and clear it of its clouds to promise a panoramic future, one that is written with a capital A.
The planetary revolution would inevitably call for others that would finally lead to the supposed path to happiness.
If you're going to be ambitious, you might as well throw yourself into the Opus Magnum, the Great Work, not to get the gold, the ringing, the material, but as a quest.
Perhaps the philosopher's stone is found rather than found; in our small daily joys, those that exist only in our soliloquies and through our senses.
The winter light between the bare branches, the sparkle in the eye before laughter, the caress of a material against the skin, the soft roughness of bark under the palm.
What if eternity were contained in the infinity of the moment?
The current world serving us the work in black, the Great Work in us is perhaps the only transformation.
Let us become infinite and living Gold, a Great Work that breathes.
The Consignment
Jeanne Vicerial, artist-seamstress, researcher and designer, creates feminine "knittings", half-body, half-sculpture, organic knitting of almost living structures emerging from weaving.
Invited to take a pas de deux with the world of Pierre Soulages, the artist offers an exceptional posthumous dialogue with the master of outrenoir at the Vieux Musée de Nîmes.
The painter having been an immense source of inspiration in her artistic journey, it is with work of surgical precision that the visual artist bows her reverence to Pierre Soulages by installing four monumental works in the city where he died last year.
A dizzying and minute darkness.
"Before seeing the light of day"
Jeanne Vicérial x Pierre Soulages
Until November 24, 2024
Old Nimes Museum
Alice Fournier, a talented contemporary jeweler, creates from stones. Passionate about gemology, it is these stones that inspire her.
She chooses exceptional stones and creates bold and poetic combinations.
She bends her demands and precise know-how to a fantasy of her own, which she nourishes with her travels, light or even daydreams, always with a passion for gemology in the background.
Her creations are encounters and a delicate and precious ballet between the stones and herself... then those who will adopt them.
On the occasion of her new “Fiji” collection, Alice Fournier invites La Consigne to take a two-step between Art and jewelry for its first Parisian pop-up.
The Consigne lends itself to the metronome of the young Franco-Swiss jeweler from October 21 to 26.
Come meet us!
Alice Fournier x La Consigne
13 rue Mazarine
From the 21st until October 26
The result is a bistro that is generous in volume and adventurous in taste, from Italian focaccia to Lebanese toum in the middle of the fields and a few minutes from the sea, using exclusively local products.
Rolland a place that delights the senses and the senses.
The place is well worth it. A bucolic corner reached by a train that takes its time, winding through expanses of smooth green before stopping at a station just outside Clermont-Ferrand.
The artists are waiting to take me to their studio.
It's the hottest day of summer. The garden, dotted with works of art by an artist friend of the family, is a haven of freshness and poetry. The journey is complete.
The weightlessness, light and delicacy that emanate from the work of Atelier Horizon Verre are projected onto their workshop.
Atelier Horizon Verre is four hands, two worlds, a multitude of skills and emotions, it is Mélanie and Justin who shape the light, each in their own way.
The Atelier is large and composed of two separate spaces. One dedicated to firing and polishing, the other to storage and special handling. This duality echoes that of the artistic tandem.
If they work together on common creations, the Atelier Horizon Verre is two creative researches, in unison or in dialogue, which constantly stretch their possibilities, towards a new perspective, extensible, always new, always more poetic.
Born from the creative elective affinities of Mélanie Gracia & Justin Hemery for a common medium of expression, the Atelier Horizon Verre traces the correspondence of their two practices and universes.
Mélanie likes to explore varied subjects with a constant search for the association of figurative or abstract elements, with in the background the permanent establishment of a space for dialogue with those who will look at her works and who remain the central actors of her work.
Justin draws his inspiration from nature and the multitude of phenomena that express it, whether mineral, meteorological, geological, telluric or celestial. The emotion that stems from its manifestations and the humility they induce are a source of infinite research for him. He develops a search for multiple emotions and an equally prolific creativity.
The result of these creative fields with panoramic opening of emotions is the Atelier Horizon Verre.
At the end of the day, I regretfully leave this bucolic bubble nourished by Art where time seems suspended, my senses filled with wonders to be recounted for a while.
A luminous and sensitive work to discover in more detail here
Summer has ended its course and is projecting its last fires at the beginning of autumn.
Softer, they announce a rare season, rich in colors and sparkles, a burst of flamboyant renewal, like an aesthetic final bouquet.
This late season is gently taking shape, with less darting rays and less harsh light promising to multiply beauty.
It's not fall, it's just the Indian version of summer.
Claude Como, a multidisciplinary visual artist, expresses herself through oil painting, ceramics, resin, charcoal and wool.
Born in Ivory Coast, she lives and works in Marseille. It is from this identity forged between two continents that her artistic research evolves.
She discovered tufting in 2019, on the internet, and very quickly took ownership of this practice which touches a tactile and more sensory dimension to her work, opening an incredible sensual dimension between her work and those who will discover it.
It is this immersive work that is highlighted in his exhibition “Sweet Symphony” at the Menton museum gallery.
This exhibition brings together 130 textile works, including a truly oversized installation, which draws us into a world where visitors are "invited to touch" as the artist invites.
The installation is gigantic (60 m). "Sweet Symphony," the eponymous title of the exhibition, is a complete immersion in the colorful and poetic imagination of Claude Como.
A full and rare sensory journey
From June 1 to September 21, 2024
Museum Gallery Palace of Europe
8 avenue Boyer 06500 Menton
The Château d'If, its legends, its majesty and its mystery, its thousand and one stories including that carried by the novel by Alexandre Dumas, stands imperturbable off the coast of Marseille, it is reached from the Old Port.
Since this summer, it has been particularly dazzling the horizon, a temporary work of art renamed "marine flux 2024." Adorned with vibrant colors, it invites the gaze more than ever.
Like a modern siren, it draws us into the odyssey told by Miguel Chevalier, who covered it in canvas and transformed the building into a cabinet of curiosities.
We succumb to the visual song of his 3D printed sculptures, drawn under a blue light that transports us to a world of flamboyant corals in the heart of a fantastic ocean.
The artist chose shapes and colors inspired by "the energy that is generated around this island."
The exhibition inside the castle offers an immersive experience in the heart of an underwater world modeled in 3D ceramic and recycled plastic and offers a journey beyond the boundaries of reality.
An exhibition with almost psychedelic connotations.
Miguel Chevalier
Until September 22, 2024
Château d'If
Marseille
The Ceret Museum is hosting a retrospective exhibition of Teresa Lancet, the Catalan artist who chose Penelope's medium, tapestry, to create a modern-day Ulysses, exploring at her fingertips the particular know-how of this practice, of Berber or Gypsy communities.
With the theme of collective memories, the exhibition retraces in 70 works, including many previously unseen, the journey of this committed artist who has drawn her Ariadne's thread between textiles, paintings, drawings, ceramics and videos.
A luminous exhibition
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Teresa Lanceta “Woven Memory”
From March 2 to June 2, 2024
Museum of Modern Art of Céret
8 Bd Maréchal Joffre, 66400 Céret
