Pascal Rivet, Jour de fête

Edition produced following Pascal Rivet's "Jour de fête" Midsummer bonfire on 20 June 2015 in Piacé.

Wooden box 11.5 x 15.5 x 4 cm with hot iron markings containing ashes, nails and screws.
50 copies.

"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