...can algorithms and poetry intersect at art ? ...can catharsis become a vibration ...can a thought energize space
*Writing in Colour- Pierre Legrand in conversation with Anuradha Majumdar at **the Goa Art and Literary Festival ,on 5th December 2014, 3.15 pm to 3.45 pm at International Center Goa, Zuari Hall * Do join us at as Anuradha Majumdar & Pierre Legrand examine the journey Pierre has made in the evolution of his art since the invention of the script that structures all his work, paintings, sculptures, reliefs or installations, together with a slide show. This will be followed with an open Q&A with the audience. *Simply Complex- Exhibition at Gallery Gitanjali 6 December ,2014 - 2 January , 2015* *The conversation will continue on 6th December,2014 at the opening of Pierre's exhibition SIMPLY COMPLEX at Gallery Gitanjali . * View his works online at: www.gallerygitanjali.com <http://www.gallerygitanjali.com/artist-details.php?a_id=36> *About Pierre* Born in Paris, an engineer by profession, Pierre Legrand’s artistic journey began after coming to India in 1968. The invention of a coded script began structuring his work from 1989, morphing through painting, sculpture or installations. Legrand exhibited extensively in Europe and India between 1989 and 2000. This followed an exploration of space, transparency and porosity in collaboration with architecture. His work has featured alongside Mark Tobey and Richard Serra and his installations include Resonance, Light Matter, Light Station and Colour Piano. Pierre’s work also features in ‘Odd Volumes’ , which showcases a selection of experimental and innovative works of book art from the 1960s to the present. Drawn from a major collection given to the Yale University Art Gallery by Allan Chasanoff, it features approximately 100 works by more than 80 artists, including acclaimed figures such as Olafur Eliasson, Yoko Ono, and Dieter Roth, offering a rare opportunity to discover the world of book art. He lives and works in Auroville. * About Anuradha Majumdar*, Anuradha who recently edited *Light Matter - Atelier Pierre Legrand , ** has had several books published including , The God Enchanter, Refugees from Paradise , Island of Infinity. She has also **written fiction for young adults,including her recently published "Infinity Papers" .She lives and works in Auroville where she has choreographed dance performances with Auroville Dance Lab based on her poems.* *Simply Complex- Pierre's Journey * *The Genesis* Cellular structures wrote Universe and Man into existence, the sacred DNA of life and matter that unfurled infinite possibilities became the threshold at which Pierre found his calling to explore the eternal frontier ,the invention of a poetic language that would be 'accessible to all senses' . *The Intersection of Geometry and Poetry ...Light and Colour* Thus began Pierre's journey, of designing and perfecting his artistic source code..... alphabets which started in geometry , morphed into strokes and dots in his quest to distil the essence and were threaded with algorithms to interject space and colour . Pierre’s work took off with the invention of a coded script, in an effort to understand the mystery of being human from the cellular level, that innermost core where the material and the spiritual can impact each other to alter life and the environment. *From the Complex to the Simple and Back* Says Pierre, " Working with the structures of my coded script helped me see a correlation with human and cellular structures and their patterns: how they impact one another, allow infiltration, or create space for change to occur. This is what painting became for me. Not a way to ‘show’ something to people but a way to see, to experience life anew though colours, transparence and light in its many layered complexity. Each layer is often very simple but by different super impositions they attain a spontaneous complexity that life offers and an acceptance of it. 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