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The Banners
Out of the temple, hanging out like an ultimate sacrifice, the Taurus
is depicted in many sides. Like a suspended Minautor, made of endless
labyrinth, it exhibits altogether its power and its dashing vulnerability.
(With names as “Aquarel” or “Velvet”) in
previous exhibitions, the banners tended to stand in groups like
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The Inprints
One step further leaves a footprint, like an evocation of the beast,
a sure sign of its presence near in time but also an evocation of
its movements, therefore a whole work with appearence, illusion,
reality and distance. The three parts stamp is a recursive pattern
stating the engaging and mythical number three expressed in a myriad
of ways. |
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The Riddles and
the Wire nettings
The wire netting acts like a fence or a defence, a protection or
a projection. They make perception more difficult, evocating the
filter inherent in all communication but also acting as a veil in
triggering desire and fantasy. |
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The Mirrors
Past the wire netting, the mirrors deflect the trap no stamps but
yours appear inside like morcelled pieces of gold beyond the wire.
The engraved and curved glasses thus creating riddles at all levels
material and mental ones, like catches for reflexions yours as well
as the art work, forging an enticing and fascinating scope of dimensions.
Mirrors are also Hélène’s way
of making each piece of her work unique for anybody as one’s
reflection uniquely participates to the art and the pieces vibrate
in attunement with the captive movements and surroundings.
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| The Web
Aside, and in utmost contrast to the mirrors, Hélène
has painted a very dense and complex intricated web with dazing
combinations of vibes, streaks and colors. This web is linking or
holding the three parts items in an intense nutritious-unweaned
relationship looking like a biological maze of rhythmic woven tracks
of cells in a multidimentional substratum. |
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| The Mobiles
As if born and taking flight from this placenta-like framework and
sparkling with light, transparences and shimmering opacities, the
flock or hélène‘s stabile and mobile sculptures
is spreading, playing with space and casting entrancing dancing
colored shadows. These mobile sculptures are combined materials
as stained and plain glass, mirrors, enamaled and fired iron.
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| For this last step, the mobile sculptures,
in 2001 Hélène has been awarded The Stained Glass
Grant by the Crédit Agricole Val de France and the Georges
Sugarman Grant in California.
Sylvie Tsangares, 23 Novembre 2003.
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