
Jean-Luc Moulène, Body, exhibition view, Forum - Niveau 0, Collections du Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2021). Photo: Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Audrey Laurans/Dist.RMN-GP.
"It’s not a volume that was randomly cut out, it’s the cut out that produces the exact volume." — Jean-Luc Moulène.
Body pays tribute to the thousands of sculptures which constitute the car bodyworks that populate our cities. The work is never seen in its entirety but relies on memory. Each plane presents gradations of the three primary colors towards white, starting from the corners of the panels, or vice versa, as if it were a material rendering of the effects produced by light. The definition and articulation of the planes are based on a specific construction algorithm.
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