Michel Paysant
Michel Paysant (b. 1955, Bouzonville) develops works that can be situated somewhere between art and science. This work takes the form of an ‘encephalogram’, an image which records the structure or electrical activity of the brain. Paysant’s image reveals the activity of the eye during sleep, describing it in a graphic trace. With his installation Nusquam (lat.: nowhere), Michel Paysant tackles the themes of the hospitality, of the other and emigration, through a free and poetic vision of the notion of “country of asylum”. Inspired by Utopia by Thomas More (1516), Nusquam should be considered as “an active waiting room”, an intermediary space where one can relax, in which one submerges oneself and where one can listen. Thus, Nusquam represents a fictional threshold of a different world, the foundations of which are anchored in an open conception of Europe. This assembly of various elements, which is the fruit of a close collaboration with different partners, combines numerous literary, historical and symbolic references and is reminiscent of baroque curiosity cabinets.
Artworks
Michel Paysant Attracteurs, 2002 Reconstruits à partir d’électroencéphalogrammes enregistrés pendant certaines étapes du sommeil : yeux ouverts, yeux fermés, sommeil 2, sommeil 4 et sommeil REM
Encre sur papier millimétré
50 cm x 65 cm
Collection Mudam Luxembourg
Donation 2004 - Michel Paysant
© Photo : Rémi Villaggi
Michel Paysant Inventarium 02, 2002 Tables, néons, sables, plantes, maquettes, bande son, banc, dessins muraux
Dimensions variables
Collection Mudam Luxembourg
Acquisition 2002
Vue de l’installation galerie Fréderic Giroux
© Photo : Denis Bouchard
Michel Paysant Nusquam, 2007 Installation technique mixte
Dimensions variables
Plante : Campanule de Brava (Contra bruxas branca)
Commande et Collection Mudam Luxembourg
Avec le concours de Musée national d’Histoire Naturelle de Luxembourg, Jardin Botanique de Bonn, Centre International d’Art Verrier de Meisenthal, Objectile, Atelier Stéphane Dwernicki, 3D Prod, Olivier Esmein, Muadhib.
© Photo : Andrés Lejona | Mudam Luxembourg
Michel Paysant Portraits de Leurs Altesses Royales le Grand-Duc Henri et la Grande-Duchesse Maria Teresa, 2014–2015 Nano-fabrication par lithographie électronique
Dépôt d’or sur silicium
Vue au microscope optique
Diamètre du silicium : 100 mm
Dimensions des portraits : 180 et 200 µm (hauteur)
Collection Mudam Luxembourg
Commande 2013
Vue de l’exposition Eppur si muove. Art et technique, un espace partagé, 09.07.2015 – 17.01.2016, Mudam Luxembourg
© Photo : Rémi Villaggi | Mudam Luxembourg