Michel Blazy
Born in 1966.
Michel Blazy fashions strange installations from materials that have often been abandoned. The artist’s workshop, kitchen and garden are thus veritable experimental labs for building up his pieces over time. Chocolate, Chinese noodles, foam, the rotting remain of potatoes, or industrial carrot puree constitute so many organic materials shaping his modest sculptures. Fragile and fleeting, Blazy’s creatures seem like shifting formal worlds that "make use of all of time’s energies in order to change shape".
Michel Blazy places the living at the centre of his work as an artist and lets it "do its work". For the artist, the living is not conceivable without multiple energies, metamorphoses and numerous strangenesses, he highlights the transitory states, mutations, decompositions and perpetual rebirths of matter in the grip of time. Static from a certain angle, the artist's work is actually inhabited by a multitude of tiny movements that constantly make and undo forms at every moment.