Report by Santanu Ganguly: Patrick Rimoux is a contemporary artist and engineer, who works primarily with French technologies. As a light sculptor, Rimoux modulates light & uses it as an artistic medium. Known for his town monuments, Rimoux will light up Alliance Francaise and light show can be viewed every evening from 6:30 pm-9 pm.
Rimoux’s projection on Alliance Francaise have been inspired by five different elements: Architecture, Rangoli of light, Kaleidoscope of his recent paintings in Jaipur city, Seasons and richness of Bollywood cinema.
Rimoux’s projects are primarily urban sized and he works with well directed spaces and architectural ensembles to integrate light into the urban landscape. He uses light reflection to make his integration look organic & natural.
About the Exhibition “Formes & Lumiere”:
Formes & Lumiere showcases 3 aspects of Patrick’s works:
1. Photographs of his works
2. Video installation & projection
3. His artistic work which focuses on cinematography films that crystallize the question of revealing light- Patrick has used raw 35 mm film material and has painted on these negatives’ to highlight different aspects of projecting light.
Patrick Rimoux, born 17 March 1958 in France, is a light sculptor. He lives in Paris where he runs the Patrick Rimoux Agency.
Patrick Rimoux is a contemporary artist and engineer, who works primarily with new French technologies. As a light sculptor, Rimoux modulates light and uses it as an artistic medium. Known for his town monuments, he has also exhibited his work at the Galerie Baudoin Lebon in Paris, the Galerie Valérie Bach in Brussels, and the Matthieu Foss Gallery in Bombay.
A graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure with a technological education, Rimoux also trained as an engineer at the Beaux Arts in Paris, where he studied at the studio of Claude Viseux. Meeting with Henri Alekan for the project Paths of Light was an important step in his artistic career because it helped define light as his medium of choice.
Rimoux's projects are primarily urban sized; he works with light at the city level. Rimoux works with well-directed public spaces and architectural ensembles to integrate light into the urban landscape. He uses light reflection to make this integration look organic and natural.
Rimoux has worked on the “Grand Place” in Brussels, dresses the front of the French Embassy in New York, and created the scenography of light around the “Centre Pompidou-Metz”.
Rimoux collaborated with the composer Louis Dandrel for the Garden of Sound and Light at La Borie, Limoges.
Rimoux produces light works for special events. Making himself the third component of staging, he accompanied his light dance performances as Cayenne in Dancing the City. He also illustrated the scene where Phaedra represented India alongside astrid-bas.com Astrid Bas and George Lavaudant.
Rimoux has participated in several festivals, such as the Eclectic Rocamadour and the Festival of the Word at Charity Sur Loire, where he created a work that showed the figure of Cardinal de Bernis.
Rimoux uses his knowledge of new technologies, innovative designs, and new lighting techniques, and theatrical light modulation to create his designs. One such design was a light piece for the Freedom Towers in Soweto, South Africa. The sculpture, commissioned by Nelson Mandela, consists of five black concrete columns mingled with nine white concrete columns. Dimming carried on these surfaces creates the movement of colors, making a meaningful sculpture. Another of Rimoux's designs was lighting of the Rue de la Loi, where he created customized "poles of light".
His personal artistic work focuses on cinematography films that crystallize the question of revealing light. In France, he worked with the raw 35mm film material of Wim Wenders, Michael Haneke, and Akira Kurosawa. In 2010, exposure in the Baudoin Lebon gallery led him to work with the actress Sandrine Bonnaire.
While in India, staying at the guest house at the Alliance Française and the Embassy of France in Delhi, Rimoux discovered the riches of Bollywood cinema, especially in regards to light and how it affixes to film, opening spaces that appear to be colored distillation of the atmosphere of the country. Rimoux was so taken with Bollywood that in 2011 and 2012 he exhibited several works at the exhibition of the India Art Fair in Delhi. His last biggest light work in Delhi was seen at Jantar Mantar during Bonjour India 2013 Festival organised by Embassy of France in India and Alliance Française in India.
Exhibition on view:
Februaary 2–9, 2014, 11am till 9pm
At Galerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Française de Delhi, 72 Lodi Estate, New Delhi-3
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