Multisensory artistic project for Guy de Maupassant Center in Colombes
Art dans la Cité/ Louis Mourier Hospital, Colombes/ 2011/2012
LEOPOLDINE ROUX/ Visual Artist/ Brussels
The laureate artist, Léopoldine Roux and her project "Living Colors"
She proposes "Birds house sculptures", a sensory stroll with human, ecological and environmental function, inciting to wandering and physical touch. They are tactile spaces because of the variety of mediums but also because of the sound of the wind playing the elements. They are also spaces of mental projection, the patient injects his universe, the construction is inspired by his imagination. They are also living spaces for birds and transmission for the patients. “Birds Houses” become spaces of transfer, sharing and poetry. About ten small breeding “Birds Houses” will be built in the heart of the garden that will be a place of interactions between the nature, the culture and the patient.
A work realized with pleasure will carry it more intensively to the others.
"I centre my work on colors, light, delight, appetite for life, thirst to express oneself. I am interested in the effects of colors, in the elastic connections between shape and color and in the experiment of colors in particular. My working proposition will go to that direction. A colorific experience!"
The project is centered on fun, the notion of pleasure and its interaction with the artistic experience. "Léopoldine Roux, in June, 2011.
At the request of the staff of the center, the artistic project has to take into account the wall which surrounds Guy de Maupassant Center.
The sensory stroll will be contemplative and modular: “bird houses” will be on the wall and there will be a sculpture bench.
Sculptures will be mobile, that is that they can be regularly moved by the inhabitants to create evolutionary paintings with bright and tasty colors.
Another idea is to transpose “bird houses” sculptures to human in the form of sculpture bench. The garden will then welcome a sculpture on the ground with a sitting vocation.
The project is centered on the notion of pleasure and its interaction with nature, environment.
The objective is to create living sculptures that are functional and, if possible, habitable.
