Jean-Luc Moulène, Técnico libertário, exhibition view, Casa São Roque — Centro de Arte, Porto, Portugal (2021). Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. © Jean-Luc Moulène/ADAGP, Paris (2021).
Técnico libertário is much like the figure of the “bricoleur”, who operates with the technique of bricolage, assembling and testing different forms and materials. He doesn’t apply only one skill or one specialization, he uses various fabrication techniques, thus his work is eclectic.
As Jean-Luc Moulène says: “My activity is to free myself from categories”. Técnico libertário is a metaphor for Moulène’s method rather than an existing and historically sanctioned term; and fortunately, one can recognize a solid avant-garde legacy behind it.
An investigation of the origin of this formulation has just started and will be further elaborated in the publication accompanying the Porto exhibition. It will examine Moulène’s eclectic and empirical techniques in direct interaction with Casa São Roque’s bourgeois interiors.
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