François Laffanour presented Glass Works by Robert Wilson, from October 21st to November 19th 2016 at Galerie Downtown in Paris. This exhibition gathered a selection of glass artworks by Robert Wilson, made from 1994 to 2003 at the Centre International de Recherche sur le Verre et les Arts plastiques (CIRVA) in Marseille.
“I like ceramics because I think it must be beautiful to work with clay and earth in one’s hands, but I much prefer glass. The heaviness and the lightness can be extreme. I like the strictness of the curved line as it is seen in geometry. There are only 2 lines: curved and straight. That is a part of classical construction: buildings/trees, protagonist/antagonist. Time for me is a line that goes from the center of the earth to the heavens. Space is a horizontal line. This cross is the basic architecture of everything. It is the stripe of Barnett Newman, a piano key being played, the drip of milk in a Vermeer painting, or Jesus Christ on a cross. Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs are based on the vertical and the horizontal, or a triangle that can be drawn from the top center to the edges of the bottom.”
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