François Méchain - Regard d'artiste

François Méchain made Perspectives, a series of three works, for the Domaine de Trévarez. The artist, known as a “nomadic sculptor” and photographer, created ways of having a conversation with this historically important site. In all his installations, he absorbs the memory of places and uses photography to conserve a perennial trace of his installations.

A golden cage in the form of an aviary allows the visitor, from where he is standing, to benefit from a contemplative view of the gardens.
The Jardin des monnaies (the Coin Garden) imagined by the artist proposes a revisited vision of the geometrical gardens of the Italian Renaissance. François Méchain transforms this garden by drawing with yellow flowers (symbolizing gold) the signs of the six most important currencies in the world. This installation criticizes contemporary consumer society.
Two Terrestrial Globes, like two spheres fitting one into the other, placed outside, evoke the infinitely large and the infinitely small. In the centre of this work, the vegetal remains of the Trévarez gardens form a first globe, encircled by another irregularly formed globe symbolizing the planet Earth.
A presentation of the photographic works of the artist completes the exhibition.

This is the seventh book in the “Regard d’artiste” collection devoted to Land Art, realized with Chemins du patrimoine in Finistere.