FINESTRE WINDOWS is an installation consisting of four clay boards
Stoneware and oxide single firing fired at 1280° at artist Alain Gaudebert’s atelier in Saint-Aubin-Château-Neuf (France).
Fired in two pieces divided after firing into four.
Each board measures 53x34x4 cm ~
Concept: The artist sees the tree as composed of one visible and one invisible part.
Two identical forms reflected on the ground like the secant plane of a double mirror. The choice of firing the two boards in one piece, only splitting them after they have hardened, manifests this dual nature. The visible part emerges from the blackness in the form of a retable, a window with no gold to illuminate it, a momentum of light given to the bas-relief of the figures by darkness that. The form, the gestalt is that of the minimal sign necessary for the eye to recognize the shape of the olive tree, that suggests linear B sign signifying the olive tree and the cone present in the shape of an empty descending triangle and an ascending full cone. It is the shape of plant growth in any size and direction in nature. The alphabet of fractals reflects the shape of branches and roots. The shape is the same, indistinguishable from the free-flowing sap.
Retable olive grove, feminine plural. The boundary between life and death does not change with light. Only the word of the sacredness of the olive tree remains.
The last window is dedicated to Jean Pierre Brun. On it Gérard Breuil writes: The power of silence and the word latent in the structure. The spiral of the mills is like a timid pulsar to which the immensity of the passing billows respond in generous harmony like a hieratic wave, an inspired tremor.
