Opening viewing Saturday 3rd June, 18h until 20h
Exhibition from Sunday 4th June to Friday 16th June, 15h until 18h
In June 2023 there will be an exhibition of works by Joël Drouin
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All artistic disciplines carry the autodidact (the self-dictated act).
My primary art is music. Music in general, jazz in particular. I have lived with it for a large part of my life. My mother, an opera singer, made me listen to, long before I was born, the great opera arias she was working on, accompanying herself with a finger on the piano which sat enthroned in our little dining room. In my amniotic pool, I was already hearing sounds, and the emotions that went with them. From this I have always had a taste for melody, which will remain my guide all my life as a musician.
Wood... The smell of wood... The colors of wood... The warmth of wood... the touch of wood, so sensitive, so close to the touch of the piano... The fragility of wood... The cutter, the scalpel and the scissors are like the extension of fingers, like the pencil for draftsmen or the brush for painters. At first I cultivated this love most secretly by cutting out pieces of veneer, crushing them, breaking them, sticking them on improbable supports... The art of marquetry is learned, like all arts, but I decided to manage on my own, with only a pair of scissors and a cutter, P. Ramond's book and a boundless admiration for cabinet and marquetry makers in the history of objects and furniture. But most of my time was occupied by musical creation and I could no longer continue drafting veneer cuttings on a table corner...
Then, as I got older, with the little experience I had acquired, I decided to devote myself to this age-old art while getting to grip with graphic design. I was fascinated by the illusions and impossible forms of M.C. Escher, the Dutch engraver, and it seemed obvious to me to reproduce the master’s drawings in marquetry. Then to go further, to invent shapes and let different or even opposite shapes cohabit, the circular and the angular for example, while leaving the material free to offer me colors, lines, curves, traits which wood has naturally. Then came the idea of the split support, which, from my point of view, brings a way of observing the work differently. The enveloping shape becomes part of the design. This support has a say in the overall design…
Today I'm here... Tomorrow I don't know... But I'm sure the wood, like a light, will be my guide for a long time towards new discoveries, new ways of looking at the world... The worlds...
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