Horloges
The “clock” pieces are an extract from the works that the artist has designed on the theme of the perception of time. Ally or enemy, peaceful or violent, inert or aggressive, time must be understood here in relation to the living. Time is also a pretext for the artist to explore very varied immaterial notions such as breathing, Zen, intuition or a critical look at an accelerating society. Art is an always open dialogue and the process towards the finished piece is as important as the idea or the result.
Experimenting, researching, probing the materials and their pragmatism establishes the balance of the work. Vincent Du Bois’ “clocks” express the creative or destructive course of the mechanisms of perception and action. The wax builds a form like an echo, the sun burns the material by inflicting its trace. Cycles of reproduction and destruction weave together and shape the world. Like time.
Faithful to his precept of always choosing the material best suited to serving the idea, Vincent Du Bois’s works alternate materials and go from object to installation as needed.
