PASSAGES
CENTRE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN
9 RUE JEANNE D'ARC — TROYES
Alain Bresson, artist and sculptor born in 1948 in Casablanca, lives and works in the Jura region of France. Fish, his favorite subject, is a recurring motif in his works. For him, fish, as marine animals, are a symbol of life, fertility, generosity, and sharing, which he expresses through various raw or processed materials. His sculptures combine terracotta, rubber, concrete, bark, branches, and collected moss.
The exhibition takes over the Troyes area and extends into the city: Place Côté Musée, Square W. Churchill, Jardin de la Préfecture… as well as in some shop windows.
Life and death interact in his works through the bright colors of the scales, while the dried fish displaying their dreary bodies seem already dead. These works reflect a sense of unease about the world. His art can be understood as a critique of the modern world coupled with a nostalgia for a time when food was not a source of fear. The recurring motifs of chains and nets in his works denounce the contradictory desires of freedom and dependence in humans.
“This experimental work is part of a logical and stimulating interpretation in which the memory of confinement in a narrow spatial configuration projects us into the past or the near future.”
Jean-Luc Gerhard, director of the Maison de la Céramique.
The exhibition is open to the public from April 06 to May 27, 2005.
