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LILIAN BOURGEAT
Capsule radieuse - NATIONAL DAY OF ARCHITECTURE
INAUGURATION OF E-CONE BY LILIAN BOURGEAT
SUNDAY 16 OCTOBER 2022 AT 11AM
CROIX MARGOT ROUNDABOUT
With the municipality of Beaumont-sur-Sarthe
Even if sculptural gigantism stems from a centuries-old tradition which, since the beginning of Pop Art, has been increasingly open to the representation of everyday objects, to the point of giving the impression that everything has been said through this particular category of sculpture, contemporary artists such as Lilian Bourgeat continue to question excess and to give it a dimension that challenges and destabilises.
By choosing to reproduce everyday objects, he wants to confront them with an apparently familiar environment (rocking chairs, garden furniture, boots, etc.) in which they can only move with difficulty. It's an artistic work in which the spectator takes on the role of participant, for example, Opening is a 2009 work made up of plastic cups larger than buckets into which visitors were invited to drink the opening cocktail (without the option of using real cups).
Lilian Bourgeat's work is based on the ambiguous relationship his works have with the viewer: while they challenge the viewer's relationship with the world, they can only 'exist' or at least take on their full meaning when someone stands next to them to give them scale. Their extraordinary size only becomes apparent to the viewer through comparison with his or her own body.
Text by Roma Lambert
