Aurélien Froment

Aurélien Froment

BornNationalityBased In
1976FrenchEdinburgh
Biography

Aurélien Froment’s “documentary style” not only reveals existing forms, but it also determines other ways of dreaming them by seeking the right transformation, that enables the past to build a future. The artist aims at making an effort of imagination to connect himself to faraway things in order to put them on a common stage and determine their importance together. In this light, he has conceived the inventory of the elements constituting the Ideal Palace of postman Cheval, a work of architecture which is so intense that only a closer vision may contribute to shedding light on this “work of one man”, concerned about his own pace. What these figures (imaginary animals, plants, ornaments, etc) carved in rock and photographed separately depict, is a different life pulse, a rhythm that the world needs as a kind of support. Aurélien Froment mobilises and engages us through the awareness of singularities like the latter. These pieces translate performative thinking in relation to preexisting works: they seek to stress the path that starts with the gesture and leads towards the form, and vice versa. The exhibition will always be, for the artist, a way of not forgetting what might be called “the arising of the gesture” - the way in which the gesture enables us to truly make use of forms as much as it helps us become receptive. ...

Selected Artworks
21 incomplete Soleri Windbells
Aurélien Froment
21 incomplete Soleri Windbells, 2015
Cultural Form of the Eighth Gift
Aurélien Froment
Cultural Form of the Eighth Gift, 2013
64.1 x 52.3cm
Earthwork III
Aurélien Froment
Earthwork III, 2015
288 x 50 x 45cm
Form of Beauty of the Sixth Gift
Aurélien Froment
Form of Beauty of the Sixth Gift, 2013
52.3 x 64.1cm
Form of Nature of the First Gift
Aurélien Froment
Form of Nature of the First Gift, 2013
52.3 x 64.1cm
Form of Nature of the Second Gift
Aurélien Froment
Form of Nature of the Second Gift, 2013
64.1 x 52.3cm
Marginalia (03-08)
Aurélien Froment
Marginalia (03-08), 2021
32 x 25cm
Marginalia (04-10)
Aurélien Froment
Marginalia (04-10), 2021
25 x 32cm
Marginalia (08-04)
Aurélien Froment
Marginalia (08-04), 2021
32 x 25cm
Marginalia (09-02)
Aurélien Froment
Marginalia (09-02), 2021
32 x 25cm
Material Form of the Fifth Gift
Aurélien Froment
Material Form of the Fifth Gift, 2013
64.1 x 52.3cm
Tombeau Idéal de Ferdinand Cheval 11-07 (Pierre d'achoppement I)
Aurélien Froment
Tombeau Idéal de Ferdinand Cheval 11-07 (Pierre d'achoppement I), 2013
Tombeau Idéal de Ferdinand Cheval 26-11
Aurélien Froment
Tombeau Idéal de Ferdinand Cheval 26-11, 2013
Tombeau Idéal de Ferdinand Cheval 31-03
Aurélien Froment
Tombeau Idéal de Ferdinand Cheval 31-03, 2013
Creuser Wolfson
Tombeau Idéal de Ferdinand Cheval 06-06 (Dragon ailé)
Aurélien Froment
Tombeau Idéal de Ferdinand Cheval 06-06 (Dragon ailé), 2013
61 x 51 x 2cm
Bdelygmia
Tricolon
Acyron
Gallery Representation
Awards
Future Generation Art Prize2012
Future Generation Art Prize2012
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