The floor is tiled in Pico ceramic squares. The frame and roof are in steel and corrugated iron, and are painted the same red as the Rombini terracotta tiles that cover the pavilion’s internal and external walls. The Lincoln Pavilion is mostly made of ceramics and glass. We became friends, and three years ago he asked me to come up with a solution for this full-size sculpture of a Lincoln." By pure chance, Pascal was in the audience. A few years ago, I gave a lecture in Quimper in which I mentioned how much Pascal Rivet’s work had marked me. I was blown over by what he was doing in those days I had no idea what sculpture was. He was a student at Quimper art school, where I took a drawing class every Wednesday in the studio where Pascal worked. Ronan reminisces: “I met Pascal Rivet when I was a teenager. Lincoln takes its place as a permanent public installation in Piacé. Piacé le Radieux is an arts centre dedicated to architecture, design and contemporary art. Piacé is a small village in rural Sarthe in central-western France, and was the subject of an architectural project by Le Corbusier and Norbert Bézard in the 1930s for a model farm, ‘la ferme radieuse’, which was never realised. Together, Rivet and Hérisson asked Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec to design a shelter for this new installation in Piacé. Nicolas Hérisson, director of the Piacé le Radieux arts centre, proposed exhibiting the piece in a roadside field in the village. 16:14:32The project of the Lincoln Pavilion came about through a series of chance meetings and resulting friendships.Ī few years ago, French artist Pascal Rivet created Lincoln, a full-size wooden sculpture of a Lincoln Continental.
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