Rémy Jacquier: Ritournelles

The exhibition dedicated to the work of artist Rémy Jacquier looks back on nearly 20 years of a practice where design, architecture and sculpture meet music as well as literature, philosophy or natural sciences.

His protean work is particularly influenced by the phenomena of transcription: internal ear diagrams transposed into instruments or models, literary works translated into Braille signs then into architectural volumes… a myriad of transformative processes operating by drifting from one language to another, from one form to another. Each architectural volume, musical instrument, drawing or musical score is thus created from the artist’s use of an “open system of production,” favoring a form of aimlessness or franticness in search of a “balance point between chaos and cosmos.” Often, Rémy Jacquier reveals these variations in series created by repetition, like so many erratic trajectories spawned from the same origin.

Referring as much to the idea of displacement and trajectory as to the rhythm, the line and the body assert themselves as fundamental elements of an approach marked by a permanent back and forth between the visible and sensitive–between optics and haptics–as well as by a performance approach to drawing. Neither image nor representation, the drawing is considered by the artist as the restitution of an experience lived in a sheet of paper’s space.

Rémy Jacquier lives and works between Nantes and Angers. Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Étienne he now is a teacher at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Nantes. The artist regularly shows his work in solo shows or group exhibitions (Villa Datris in 2015, FRAC Basse-Normandie, Musée des Beaux Arts de Calais and Sainsbury Center for Visual Art Norwich in 2014, Espace de l’art concret in 2013, Festival du Monastier sur Gazeilles in 2012, Domaine de Kerguéhennec and Centre culturel Louis Vuitton in 2011, L’art dans les chapelles and Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes in 2009, etc.). His work is also part of several public collections (Frac Centre-Val de Loire, Frac Auvergne, Frac Midi-Pyrénées, Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes, Artothèque de Lyon, Artothèque d’Angers, etc.).

Curator: Abdelkader Damani (director of the Frac Centre-Val de Loire)
Contact communication: Marine Bichon, marine.bichon@frac-centre.fr