La Forêt d'Art Contemporain : La Mule à cinq pattes, oeuvre n°15

The Five-legged Mule, Jean-Francois Gavoty. Sore, 2015. Programmation : Jean-Francois Dumont
Probably time is the main character here: different durations characterize the place, the history of the village embodied in the two pines francs, the movement of the little Leyre, the layout of the path, the gallery forest with its density of vegetation, its collapses and its play of shadows. The bamboo plantation bursts into these rhythms, artificializing the nature of the Landes. It plays the role of exotic scenery. It is the perfect place to welcome another artifice which is that of art: here a polystyrene composition laminated with epoxy resin and covered with resinous bark. In this case the sculpture has the presence of a chimera, an assembly of uncertain shapes under a bark dress. It is a sign of this constant tension between latent enchantment and anxiety.