InstallationNovember 12, 2021· By Christine Frèrot
Pancho Quilici: Mosaic "Regions of convergences."
On the front wall of the Voltaire / Jaurès crossroads in Arcueil, the Venezuelan artist (1954) who has lived in this town near Paris since 1988, created five panels of 180 x 180 cm each (for a total of 9 meters), in glass paste mosaic, sandstone and white PVC entitled "Regions of Convergences." His city of residence commissioned the delicate, precise, meticulous work in which the artist had to forget time as it took him three years to complete it.
It is a large composition conceived as an imaginary landscape wherein a mobile and fragmented visual digression, Quilici makes mountains, rivers, valleys, and clouds appear from a central bubble. The more or less figurative forms unfold in concentric circles, like a controlled "explosion" that allows us to observe a found nature. Thus, water, wind, earth, and air are present in this very mineral neighborhood where small houses and residential buildings predominate like a breath of fresh air. In the center of each panel, five 34 x 34 cm squares (digital prints on Dibond) confirm the artist's geometric desire inherent in all his work.
These five panels represent the five Platonic solids: the tetrahedron, the octahedron, the hexahedron, the icosahedron, the dodecahedron, which according to Plato, evoke the four elements and constitute for the artist, in this work, the perfection of the underlying three-dimensional geometry of nature and the universe.
It is a large composition conceived as an imaginary landscape wherein a mobile and fragmented visual digression, Quilici makes mountains, rivers, valleys, and clouds appear from a central bubble. The more or less figurative forms unfold in concentric circles, like a controlled "explosion" that allows us to observe a found nature. Thus, water, wind, earth, and air are present in this very mineral neighborhood where small houses and residential buildings predominate like a breath of fresh air. In the center of each panel, five 34 x 34 cm squares (digital prints on Dibond) confirm the artist's geometric desire inherent in all his work.
These five panels represent the five Platonic solids: the tetrahedron, the octahedron, the hexahedron, the icosahedron, the dodecahedron, which according to Plato, evoke the four elements and constitute for the artist, in this work, the perfection of the underlying three-dimensional geometry of nature and the universe.
