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For L.F.D.A. 02.For La Force de l’Art 02, Michel Blazy occupies a wall-less space divided into three by curtains composed of threads of green glue. Blazy is an architect and orchestrator of space, and a skilled organiser of the life that inhabits it, peopling his “vivariums” – like his ongoing studio experiments – with ensembles of living works whose form and nature evolve over time. His sculptures and installations are assemblages of organic, fragile, ephemeral, perishable materials, often made of foodstuffs (pasta, vegetables, fruit, cereals etc.) or chemical products (shaving foam, glue, etc.). Some are figurative, like Blacky the shaving-foam poodle, or Nature molle (“Soft Life”), a replica of a tradtional still-life using real fruit. Others – like the Mur de poils de carotte (“Red-head Wall”, a vertical surface covered with carrot peelings), or the Mur qui pèle (“Peeling wall”, coated in agar-agar that produces fine flakes as it dries out) – resemble gently crumbling, disintegrating architectural elements. Incorporating every stage in the lifecycles of vegetable, organic or animal matter, Michel Blazy’s works grow, flower, wither, dry out, crack and moulder before our eyes. Left to evolve under their own impulse within the space of the exhibition, they offer an amusing, experimental, live illustration of the natural, uncontrollable processes of life in all its forms. Michel BlazySculptures and installations composed of organic and perishable materials, the works of Michel Blazy have the process of decomposing matter for their main subject. By their capacity to self-organize in the exhibition space and to disappear, foiling the art market economy and putting into question the definition, through the issue of permanence, of the artwork as well as the artist's status as absolute author of the work. By associating with architectural elements or persons, they favour a playful and childlike approach to the great themes of life, and with their interactiveness, increasing awareness in spectators of all ages and from all horizons. [M. A.] Michel Blazy was born in 1966 in Monaco.
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