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With the artist Damien Cabanes : 1% artistique - General High School, Tournefeuille (31)
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These contemporary stained glass windows are made using a mixture of two different techniques: a traditional method of stained glass in lead, painted with grisaille, which are then assembled onto sheets of very large industrial glass. The characters are created from coloured, blown glass and affixed to a translucent background. The prevailing impetus for this work by Damien Cabanes was determined by the architecture. |
“ Before appreciating the narrative, we are first immersed in a sensual response: the impact that stained glass windows have on the nervous system is much more powerful than that of painting.” “The iconography here will be the image of adolescents, illuminated in their daily lives. It will show that in the apparent banality there can be a joie de vivre and a poetry in even the most anodyne moments of life.” Damien Cabanes |
LA MÉTHODE / Une connaissance infaillible du matériau, une solide aptitude à l’écoute, mais aussi, bien souvent, une intuition propre à prolonger la volonté d’autrui, tels sont les qualités requises au bon déroulement d’une collaboration. Pour tous ceux de l’atelier Jean-Dominique Fleury qui travaillèrent aux côtés de Pierre Soulages, les exigences furent multiples : ils durent élaborer de nouveaux gestes, les contrôler, réformer leurs habitudes, inventer puis guider de nouveaux outils. L’originalité du projet de Conques nécessita, préalablement au travail du |
verre, la construction de maquettes à échelle réelle. Sur de grands panneaux de bois, des bandes de scotch noir patiemment positionnées pré-figurèrent l’emplacement des plombs et des barlotières dont les lignes donneront leur forme aux futurs vitraux. C’est aussi à cette extension du champ d’application technique que le verrier dût apporter ses soins, faisant preuve de sa maîtrise aussi bien pour les esquisses préparatoires que pour l’exécution finale. |
LE MATÉRIAU / For light to issue from the glass itself and not come directly from the sun, the glass used at Conques is not transparent, but translucent. The diffused quality of light transmission isolates the space within the basilica, cutting it off from the outside world, giving rise to inner reflection. Externally, they blend with the stone whose chromatic uniformity is not disrupted by the mottled glass. |
Specially created in a laboratory using granulation technique, differing levels of crystalisation throughout the glass create nuances of diffused light. Each sheet of glass is approximately 8 millimeters thick. |