The Jean Roullands of the Swimming Pool.
| N° d'inventaire | 17249 |
| Format | 16 x 23.5 |
| Détails | 143 p., color illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Roubaix, 2013 |
| Etat | Nine |
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The Piscine André Diligent Museum of Art and Industry in Roubaix celebrates the work of Jean Roulland through this catalog, which brings together the sixty or so works that make up its collection as well as richly illustrated texts on one of the most significant bronze casters of contemporary sculpture. A prominent figure of the Roubaix Group, Roulland captures in the material of elusive forms, the original tension between joy and suffering, between hope and anguish. Refusing all concessions, all decorative dimensions, his work, populated by heads and bodies distorted by their emotions, their history, their contradictions, reflects like a mirror the disturbing beauty of a suffering humanity. "Like Hephaestus in his forge, Jean Roulland creates a world" (Lydia Harambourg), to which you are easily summoned by the fascinating text of Germain Hirselj and the interview with a collector, faithful friend of La Piscine and admirer of the artist, collected by Jérôme Fourmanoir. Much more than an overview of the collections of the Roubaix museum, this work offers an informed and up-to-date panorama (thanks to numerous unpublished reproductions) of the work of Jean Roulland.
The Piscine André Diligent Museum of Art and Industry in Roubaix celebrates the work of Jean Roulland through this catalog, which brings together the sixty or so works that make up its collection as well as richly illustrated texts on one of the most significant bronze casters of contemporary sculpture. A prominent figure of the Roubaix Group, Roulland captures in the material of elusive forms, the original tension between joy and suffering, between hope and anguish. Refusing all concessions, all decorative dimensions, his work, populated by heads and bodies distorted by their emotions, their history, their contradictions, reflects like a mirror the disturbing beauty of a suffering humanity. "Like Hephaestus in his forge, Jean Roulland creates a world" (Lydia Harambourg), to which you are easily summoned by the fascinating text of Germain Hirselj and the interview with a collector, faithful friend of La Piscine and admirer of the artist, collected by Jérôme Fourmanoir. Much more than an overview of the collections of the Roubaix museum, this work offers an informed and up-to-date panorama (thanks to numerous unpublished reproductions) of the work of Jean Roulland.