Dominique Blais - Lot 34

Dominique Blais Fluid dynamics (Cutting), 2019 / 2020 Judean bitumen and oil paint on poplar wood panels wood panels 120 x 120 cm Unique piece BIO In an artistic practice that brings together a range media and techniques (installation, sound, video, photography, painting, drawing, ceramics, etc.), Dominique Blais places her work in a contextual contextual logic. By questioning place, temporality and and constraint(s), he works on the sensitive and physical perception and physical perception of our environment to the invisible and the inaudible, and the materialization of time. Dominique Blais lives and works in Paris. He is represented by Galerie Xippas and is an associate lecturer at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is a a graduate of the École des Beaux-arts de Nantes a DEA in Multimedia Media from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and a post-graduate diploma from the École Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Marseille. Since the mid-2000s, his work has been the subject of numerous been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the first edition of the Biennale Son Son Biennial in the Swiss canton of Valais, at the Hôtel de Hôtel de Ville de Paris for the Prix 1% Marché de l'art, at the Le Lait Le Lait contemporary art center in Albi, Chapelle du Genêteil in Château-Gontier, at the Lyon Biennale, at the Musée d'arts de Nantes, the Frac Franche-Comté in Besançon, the Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai, the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, the Palais de Tokyo, the Grand Palais, the Musée des Arts et Métiers and Musée de la Poste in Musée des Beaux-arts d'Angers, the Villa Arson in Nice and the Mac/Val in Vitry-sur-Seine. From 2022 to 2025, at the invitation of Le Voyage en hiver, he is developing the score-work "A Flot d'airain" on the scale of the city of Nantes and its steeples. WORK Excerpt from artist Francis Raynaud's text about Dynamique des fluides presented at Quinconce in Montfort-sur-Meu in 2021/2022 * : "What if we had the time? What if we really had the time to observe Dominique Blais' painting, for fifty or a hundred years, for example? We'd observe the Clinamen, the declination of atoms that, as they fall into the void, join with other atoms to form a body. Let's take another look at what we know. The paint is made on poplar wood panels, on a base of bitumen of Judea (very shady) diluted in turpentine, then comes gold powder pigment also diluted in turpentine, linseed oil and siccative (which activates drying). We also know that the whole thing is bound to move, slowly but surely. Without being a soothsayer or a scientist, I can tell you that the fall is going to be slow, very slow. For it is indeed a fall, a fall of matter. What we can't predict, however, is the outcome of the battle between matte and shiny, between attraction and repulsion. What we can't predict either is what the public will see, what you will see. Well, time is inevitably going to run out, and that's where speculative fiction comes in." In March 2022, elements of the polyptych have disappeared. La Dynamique des fluides (Découpe) is a recently recovered fragment of the original work. It consists of two parts, which, when assembled, measure 120 x 121 cm. * http://pointcontemporain.com/en-direct-exposition-dominique-blais-la-dynamique-des-fluides/