Jean-Pierre BALDINI: « A Moment of Life » : ses 7 dernières séries

Jean-Pierre Baldini creates limited series with each time a specific theme mainly inspired from nature, like like "Air", "Earth", "Feather", "Trace". Each of these periods are identified by an original conceptual argument which inevitably influences the form without however prohibiting a minimum of continuity.

"The theme of reflection, abundantly treated in painting, especially during the Renaissance,

has largely remained foreign to sculpture.

If the principle has long been acquired by me,

it was only recently that I was able to concretize it in bronze and this in part thanks to scanning and 3D printing techniques.

Here is the passage from the intention in plaster to the realization in bronze.…"

A character is confronted with a “landscape” treated in a hyper-realistic way.

On a broken wall, a shattered rock, or a plank that breaks, the character comes to rest and interacts with the environment. The atmosphere of this landscape and the attitude of the characters are the basis of the particularity of these sculptures.

Naturally ephemeral and immaterial.

Baldini masters here this flattening of the signifier of his characters and brings a nuance to the reading of the sculpture.

Imagine a feather planted in a soap bubble…

This is what Baldini wants us to feel.

Made of bronze, the feather touches a glass bubble.

Even a little more lightness!

By using the aesthetic and mechanical qualities of different frosted resins,

Baldini offers another look at this theme.

On the strength of the principle implemented previously,

Baldini retains the mobility of these sculptures while introducing a pendular element.

This reference of verticality,
becomes a setback to the oscillatory movement of the sculpture.