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Noisetier | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography

Noisetier
  • France
  • Sculptor

The empty and the full, what we see, what is reflected, what is absorbed, the whole thing is a game, the game of life.
The glass artist Noisetier has always liked to control materials. From culinary art, he has kept a few tools, the meaning of training and the idea of always pushing research further. For 20 years, he has lived and worked in the south of France near Nîmes, where his studio, like a restaurant, is always open. Sculpting took him down the path of glassmaking. Self-taught, he invented the techniques specific to his needs.\n\nAs transparency attracted him, he chose glass. Writing is at the heart of his work. Whether it is readable or not is not necessary. Written automatically or thoughtfully, playing with calligraphy, each piece is a page of a book. For everything, a piece of metal is the link. The collections are the chapters. Each project is a story in the making.
In Noisetier's work, the glass is glued and cold-rolled, diamond-cut and sandblasted. The glass artist uses the fusing technique to shape and thermos-glue large thicknesses of glass. He then sculpts the glass blocks into diamond discs in order to shape them and give them a very raw, mineral appearance.\n \nTo express his emotions, he works in contrast with much more detailed aspects: more precise with the application of gold leaves, more colourful with the use of opaline glass of different colours, more flexible with the use of very brightly coloured latex. The balance of the opposites is then obtained and the sculpture can live. Fully…

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  • 2016
    Permanent exhibition at the Ars Mundi gallery
    Hanover, Germany
  • 2012
    Selected to represent France at the Autumn Fair
    Canton, China
  • 1998
    Participation in the Biennale of contemporary art
    Nîmes, France
  • 1966
    Birth
    -, France
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