There are objects, moments, places, encounters that are indescribably poetic; no words can describe the delicacy and emotion that unfolds there.
The work of Cyril Maisonnave, unclassifiable, singular, with a unique and rare aesthetic alphabet, is fully part of it.
The "knitting artist" humbly says that he does not know how to write poetry, so he tries to knit it, and each of his creations makes this sentence vibrate intensely.
Over the course of a thousand and one lives, as a cook, textile designer or visual arts teacher, the artist has woven his own personal thread of Ariadne, creating his own mysteries of beauty.
Deeply driven by the importance of transmission, his work focuses on everyday objects as privileged witnesses to the passage of time.
This is how his spoons evoke the trace of what has been, as if they themselves had already lived a thousand and one lives and crossed the erosion of time; objects of the archaeology of the future which both exhume memory and already carry within them the gaze of those who will discover them.
They all tell a story depending on the material chosen. Made of metal, plant matter, or porcelain, they bear witness to a perpetual dream of memory, one in which we collect, give, and transmit the most important thing: the imprint of memory.
Cyril Maisonnave knits the very essence of time.
