Pascal PIERMÉ, Origines and Murals

With the series “Origins,” the artist develops a cumulative and modular approach to sculpture, drawing on a distinctive technique: each element is sculpted by hand, then incorporated into a larger whole that forms the final work, according to a logic of free assembly. This method allows for great flexibility in the creative process and opens the way to a form of improvisation—something that is more limited in wood sculpture. Wood—traditionally regarded as a rigid material, unforgiving of error—here becomes a fluid ground for experimentation. By sculpting each piece individually, the artist invents a visual alphabet composed of volumes, rhythms, textures, and colors. The works can be read from left to right or the reverse, from a fixed vantage point or while in motion, like a mental landscape in relief.

“Origins, for me, is a way of expressing myself through repetition and multiplicity. By varying patinas, colors, and forms, each module becomes a letter in a sentence, a word in a poem, a nuance in a pictorial composition.”

The “Murals” series, composed of wood bas-reliefs, stands at the crossroads of painting and sculpture.“It is a more direct, more frontal approach—closer to that of a painter in its treatment of the plane, yet always faithful to the essence of the sculptor: thinking in three dimensions. Certain elements are thus worked in relief, embedded into the surface to blur the boundaries between volume and drawing.Here, I combine a topographical reading—seen from above—with our usual horizontal perception, as though several viewpoints were coexisting simultaneously.This interplay of perspectives invites us to reconsider the way we perceive space. A flattened vision, certainly, yet one inhabited by depth: a kind of compressed third dimension, stretched between representation and abstraction.”