Peace flight
40 white paper doves are flying around in the Church Peter & Paul in Allschwil
Doves stand for peace, hope, life, renewal – a peace flight.
For a moment I would have liked this peace flight to fly towards Ukraine or Gaza, but no, doves are usually flying in all directions, that’s how they are and it’s good like it is.
Why 40 doves?
40 is a symbolic number, which is strikingly common in the Bible.
40 as a sign of creation in its entirety and completeness, 40 as a sign of a phase of change that enables a new beginning. In this sense, for me, this number is associated with openness, presence and hope.
Peace flight
Loop inspired from the Möbius strip (surface with only one side and one boundary)
Brass, ceramic, wood – 60 x 50 x 15 cm
the spring
Messing, 50 x 70 cm, glas base
In this form one can breathe and relax. The richness and depth of its bluish patina are contrasting with the simplicity of this shape which seems to be held in an invisible hand. A light radial structure gives the “spring” a feel of eternity.
wild geese flying
copper, nylon thread, plexiglas
2m x 1m x 80 cm
Wild geese have a high social organization,
which fascinates me:
Flying in a group over a long distance, the strongest among them take turn at the head
of the flight, where the resistance of the air is
the strongest.
Also they take the weakest and jungest ones
in the middle of their flight.
Balance
copper and brass 48 x 50 cm, wooden base
The copperplate balances between heaven and earth, just about to soar in iridescent radiance.
Venus or Myriam’s dance
Copper, wooden base
80 x 30 x 30 + 26 cm
Convolutions of a long and thin copper flame, lightly dressed with its loop of forged copper.
Winter sun
Copper, colored wood
60 x 46 cm
Red moon
Copper, wild cherry tree bark, hanging on nylon thread
60 x 60 cm
Doves
Copper – fire patina
+/- 45 x 55 cm
In a permanent research on shape, dynamism and patina, several doves have been created. All of them are unique pieces.
Those doves are a kind of game between relief and full shape.
Coq bleu
stained wood, tail feathers in brass – plexiglas base
87 x 20 cm + 8cm
Red kite
beechwood, copper, wooden base
22 x 14 cm
singing heron
Aspen wood, steel base
98 cm + 33 cm
Horus
soapstone, messing foot, wooden base
42 x 25 x 12 cm + 5 cm
Creation of Adam
Flying fish
soapstone, plexiglas base
24 x 30 cm + 6 cm
The color and natural stratification of the stone give a floating aspect to this sculpture. Although almost flat and square, the shape remains organic and seems to shoot forward like the mass of a flying fish.