Jean Noël's Lyric Sculptures at Crac Montbéliard and Espace Sculpfort

Sculptor Jean Noël explores the dynamics of materialization rather than weight or mass. His works hover between balance and imbalance, addressing passage, ephemerality, and fluidity against form's permanence. Using materials like wood, recycled plastic, cardboard, fabric, resin, and paint, his pieces are delicate, pastel-toned, and fragmentary, evoking nature with sinuous lines and arabesques. They appear to defy gravity, suspended in space via precise hanging systems, often anchored to walls by a single steel rod. Recent works consist of small cardboard edges covered in color, pinned to walls with a single attachment point, transitioning from two-dimensional planes to volumes. The exhibition at Crac Montbéliard runs from June 30 to September 9, 2001, and at Espace Sculpfort in Maubeuge from October 26 to December 1, 2002. It will also be presented at the Musée d'art de Joliette in Canada from September 29, 2002, to January 5, 2003. René Viau authored the text.