Pascal Rivet / Jour de fête -

Pacal Rivet, Jour de fête, 2016 Film in triptych, 48 mins,

PASCAL RIVET

FÊTE DAY / MIDSUMMER BONFIRE

Saturday 20 June 2015 at dusk

Free Entry

Usually orchestrated by Marioussa Rebecq / "Andrea Crews", the bonfire celebrating the summer solstice and the end of the harvest will this year be the work of Pascal Rivet. "New Holland", his 1:1 tractor sculpture, exhibited here four years ago, will be burnt in an open field.

TRIPTYCH FILM

"The initial purpose of this wooden tractor was not to "go up in smoke...". However, little by little and in an increasingly insistent way, the idea of seeing it disappear (after having seen it slowly built...) "germinated" to the point of becoming a possible, absurd, baroque and tragic outcome to this sculpture project. The idea of a fire took hold, like the tractor's funeral, becoming its own pyre and its own wooden coffin. Twilight images, the body caressed by the flames, consuming itself "slowly". A "rural" Crash.
Pascal Rivet