Constellaton ordinaire #14 (Les êtres)
Literally Ordinary constellation #14 (The beings) is a set of 18 wooden sculptures, creation for the Melle Biennale intitled “Nous Merveillons” 2024.
Curator Evariste Richer
The starting point is a large pile of pieces of wood, logs and tree trunks, accumulated on the materials storage site of the technical services of the commune of Melle. The wood came mainly from trees that had fallen during the recent violent storms.
Carried onto a meadow, these fragmented and dislocated trees metamorphose into a more or less organised whole, a constellation of recomposed and whitewhashed trunks. Superimposing segments of different diameters and of various species of wood typical of the region (acacias, oaks, birches and chestnuts), the trunks are erected like an impossible reconstruction of the forest they once formed. They stand as fragile witnesses to a land shaped by turbulent times.
This new work for the Biennale de Melle is part of a series of sculptural works by Jan Kopp which, borrowing plant elements or natural phenomena, create spaces that depict landscapes in a precarious situation, inverted, in balance or unstable. Many thanks to Nathan Levinson, carpenter and wood engineer, responsible for the (technical) design, production and supervision of the work.
Curator Evariste Richer
The starting point is a large pile of pieces of wood, logs and tree trunks, accumulated on the materials storage site of the technical services of the commune of Melle. The wood came mainly from trees that had fallen during the recent violent storms.
Carried onto a meadow, these fragmented and dislocated trees metamorphose into a more or less organised whole, a constellation of recomposed and whitewhashed trunks. Superimposing segments of different diameters and of various species of wood typical of the region (acacias, oaks, birches and chestnuts), the trunks are erected like an impossible reconstruction of the forest they once formed. They stand as fragile witnesses to a land shaped by turbulent times.
This new work for the Biennale de Melle is part of a series of sculptural works by Jan Kopp which, borrowing plant elements or natural phenomena, create spaces that depict landscapes in a precarious situation, inverted, in balance or unstable. Many thanks to Nathan Levinson, carpenter and wood engineer, responsible for the (technical) design, production and supervision of the work.
