Composition alchimique au pied de paraffine, Emmanuelle Etienne - T.O.E. Art Market

Cornues en verre soufflé extension plomb et pied en paraffine. Dimensions variables

https://www.navigart.fr/frac-om/artworks https://www.navigart.fr/frac-m/artwork/400000000001053 The artistic practice of E. E develops around volume (using materials and techniques of sculpture) and installation using all sorts of medium and techniques like drawing, photography, video and blown glass. Built as a network in which each axis of research brings its specific load, her work mixes thinking trails and objects of speculation. Her work runs in cycles becoming richer and richer along the years. Since 2015, his glass creations have been presented as installations with evocative titles: Alchemical compositions 1 # 2 # 3 etc. which combine blown glass bubbles (Les cornues), lead, paraffin and other suggestive materials. At the same time some installations involving projected images (video on paraffin) are directly related to the tutelary figure of the god Pan, which is also the subject of a declination in drawing embroidered on translucent paper. “Pan”, 2000 – 2019, series of embroidered . Half-man, half-goat, Pan represents at the same times the animal vitality, the primordial instincts but also the great childish fears that build the individual and collective unconscious.