Julie LEGRAND (1973) - FRANCE

Antinomy – Sculpture made from assembled glass objects - L 18 x H29 cm - Unique Piece - 2021. Gallery certificate will be given to the buyer. Julie Legrand (1973, FRance) lives and works in Picardy After studying philosophy and literature, Julie Legrand trained in various glass techniques, working with the Centre International d'Art Verrier in Meisenthal. In recent years, she has completed a professional master's degree in contemporary design and technology at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle Saint-Sabin in Paris, as well as training in woodturning and basketry. In other words, her conceptual research goes hand in hand with a desire to master the material. For several years now, Julie Legrand has been working with glass, always transmuting the mineral into living matter, in a complex and uncomplicated alchemy. "And when I ripped it out, all life came with it". This phrase is emblematic of his work, since, written in spun glass, it perfectly evokes the vital energy that underpins it. This energy is everywhere, in the work itself, which, depending on the technique chosen, requires strength, breath, as well as meticulousness. There's an irruption in this work, a singularity, a strangeness, an invasion, a proliferation... all the bubbling of the drive for life, which surges, sometimes to the point of oppression, from the material and its memory. And a whole lot of humour! Collection Exhibitions Central Asia, Baronian, Brussels Gallery Marie-Laure Fleisch Brussels Biennale Internationale du Verre de Biot. GLASSWEEK – Venise – TenARTS. Galerie Delaunay, Paris International contemporary glass biennial. Strasbourg Anton Weller Gallery, Paris Gentilly Cultural Centre House of culture, Gauchy Alain Monvoisin, Paris