Commercial and industrial building operation, Art gallery
Jean-Francois Scalbert - Kinetic Art
Guided tour by appointment - Scalbert prefers real movement. On often abstract backgrounds, sometimes evoking the dancing signs of Paul Klee, more often an uncertain materialistic universe, he inserts ingenious little mechanical elements: connecting rods, pulleys, a bicycle chain, gears of all kinds, including even the same square wheel dear to the watches of Maurice Lacroix. A piece of broomstick crosses a canvas, another gives the impression of small rollers painting on it then causing colors to shimmer on its surface, elsewhere the movement of vertical wooden rods reveals the face of Serge Gainsbourg. The melancholic atmosphere of a small charcoal painting is suddenly illuminated by the windows of the skyscrapers touched by a twinkling moon that a hypothetical mist temporarily masks. So many scenes that provoke emotion, that move and produce sound as the visitor passes by, thanks to proximity sensors integrated into the mechanism.
