From chaos to light 1 Sculpture

Elevations, from chaos to light brings to all these researches an answer, with a new serenity and poetic unity. From this point of view, these vertical works of Jean-François Lemaire, are all gestures that testify to our resilience and our growth, after existence, time and the cosmos have penetrated us on all sides, scattered, shattered. These works are the long paths that lead from the chaos of fragmented elements to the luminous completeness of the bodies, through the polished, transparent glass, mirror as much as window on interior worlds finally appeased. Supporting his plastic approach to the concepts of light, transformation, unification, harmonization, reparation or alleviation of tensions, the work of Jean-François Lemaire, for decades, relates to the various states of glass and the deployment of its expressive capacities. He uses precisely its vocabulary of opaque, rough or even chaotic states of matter-glass for bases of parts that then develop upward, towards a total transparency and a perfect polish, a path towards light, deceiving the eye by its intangibility. In this and for that, the work of Jean-François Lemaire touches on the universal.