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This new collection by Ronan Bouroullec extends his exploration of light\u2014its way of inhabiting matter, lifting it, anchoring it, and giving it form. Slender structures, suspended in space and punctuated by glass halos, stand halfway between drawing and sculpture. A tension thus arises between fragility and rigor, lightness and structure. It is a collection of lights\u2014a more appropriate word than lamps or luminaires, technical and almost trivial. Each of them is composed of two elements of fine blown glass: a white opaline globe, diffusing the light, encased in a transparent, gray, or amber corolla, which, depending on the viewing angle, filters or reflects it. They are most often connected to other identical elements by black or gray anodized solid aluminum rods\u2014the design, assembly details, and edge tension are of an almost watchmaking precision\u2014to form sets of 3, 4, 9, 15, or 20 lights, arranged in vertical lines, circles, or grids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La sph\u00e8re lumineuse ins\u00e9r\u00e9e au centre d\u2019une corolle de verre, de m\u00e9tal ou de perspex est l\u2019un des fondamentaux du vocabulaire formel des designers\u2019 lights, de Fontana Arte \u00e0 BBPR ou Gino Sarfatti ou m\u00eame Pascal Mourgue. Mais ce n\u2019est pas tant \u00e0 l\u2019histoire du design que renvoient les pi\u00e8ces pr\u00e9sent\u00e9es ici par Ronan Bouroullec qu\u2019\u00e0 celle de l\u2019art minimal. On peut lire cette r\u00e9f\u00e9rence dans le r\u00e9pertoire des mat\u00e9riaux \u2013 le m\u00e9tal anodis\u00e9 qui \u00e9voque les Progressions ou les Stacks de Donald Judd-, des formes -on pense au disque Untitled (1968) du Moma de Robert Irwin, ou des effets -le halo des n\u00e9ons de Dan Flavin. Mais elle est plus pr\u00e9sente encore dans l\u2019importance des enjeux de perception et de relation \u00e0 l\u2019espace ici mis en jeu. Fond\u00e9e sur un syst\u00e8me de combinatoires et de r\u00e9p\u00e9titions -caract\u00e9ristiques du minimalisme tant en sculpture qu\u2019en musique- la composition des lumi\u00e8res de Ronan Bouroullec se d\u00e9veloppe de mani\u00e8re potentiellement infinie. Leur dimension est d\u00e9termin\u00e9e par l\u2019espace dans lequel elles s\u2019inscrivent, et dont elles viennent modifier la perception. Elles jouent sur les diff\u00e9rents \u00e9tats simultan\u00e9s de la lumi\u00e8re : diffus\u00e9e, filtr\u00e9e, r\u00e9fl\u00e9chie, projet\u00e9e. La perception en est double, selon que la source de lumi\u00e8re est dirig\u00e9e vers le mur- flottement, myst\u00e8re- ou vers le spectateur \u2013 cercles, auras. Pour citer Robert Irwin : \u00ab la question n\u2019est pas de faire des objets\u2026 ce qui nous occupe, c\u2019est notre \u00e9tat de conscience et la forme de nos perceptions \u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ronan Bouroullec’s work on light has been marked from the beginning by a form of tension between two opposing poles. That of abstraction (Luce Orizzontale and Luce Verticale in 2020, Luce Sferica in 2025) and that of the evocation of an image (notably at work in the series Bells, in 2005, then Conques et Lianes in 2010, or Cha\u00eenes, in 2016, highlights of his long-term collaboration with Galerie kreo). A form of oscillation between the priority given on the one hand to the issues of form and on the other to those of perception. This new proposal is resolutely on the abstract side, the phenomenological side. “What you see is what you see,” according to the phrase with which Franck Stella established the very essence of minimalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Minimalism. The term is tricky to use, as the clich\u00e9s of contemporary design have burdened it with connotations of simplism, boredom, and laziness. If Ronan Bouroullec reclaims it, it is to reinvigorate it with the exact opposite qualities: delicacy, subtlety, sensitivity, and confusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He restores to it a spirit whose principles Pascal evoked thus: “We barely see them, we feel them rather than see them, we have infinite difficulty making them felt by those who do not feel them themselves. These are things so delicate, and so numerous, that it takes a very delicate and clear sense to sense them.” This spirit has a name: the spirit of finesse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a0September 4 to November 1, 2025<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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GALERIE KREO<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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Chiaroscuro This new collection by Ronan Bouroullec extends his exploration of light\u2014its way of inhabiting matter, lifting it, anchoring it, and giving it form. Slender structures, suspended in space and punctuated by glass halos, stand halfway between drawing and sculpture. A tension thus arises between fragility and rigor, lightness and structure. 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