Claude GFELLER

SIDEREAL

A notion of space

With your eyes closed, perspectives disintegrate in a continuous spatial exchange. The figure insistently looms large, justifying the cells that gather together and form an organic whole. History grabs hold of the figure, which is ready to divide and multiply in a beam of light that shows up uncertainties.

Sidereal, the universe of Philippe Grosclaude. Like the outline of a dream, open to speculation of all kinds and contradiction between shapes, a sort of catalysis located in the infinite, where masks filter into a referential history.

The masks of Philippe Grosclaude, like the geometry of his shapes, consist of an imaginary world based primarily on a generative and destructive being, concealed in a preponderant environment. These objectives are fostered by precise pictorial movements linked perfectly to expression.

Claude Gfeller
Curator of the Locle Museum of Fine Art

In exhibition catalogue, Philippe Grosclaude
Musée des beaux-arts de la Ville du Locle, 21 avril – 9 juin 2002