Motivations

Dallegret’s artistic approach is characterized by two converging drives. The first, internal, tends to achieve a synthesis of the different modes and materials, technological or thematic, that he explored over a nearly forty years career. The second drive is outward, directed at a public assertion of this synthesis, by way of major urban installations. The more intimate, analytical, industrial design process, that produces the simple and functional object, is therefore replaced by an essentially formal synthetical megadesign, a totality that, because of its discourse and dimensions, cannot be expressed elsewere than in public space. Moreover, that space becomes itself not only a mere place, but the very object of this ultimate synthesis that henceforth adresses the city as such, that is the postindustrial city, which is the ending expression of liberal democracy, and that the design wants not only to celebrate but also to express and explain by unearthing and revealing its profound urban sedimentation and structure.

Jean Décarie
Urbanist




Porte-Lumière
Trélazé
© 2001 François Dallegret
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