SPLIT: PIERRE-MARIE LEJEUNE

In Pierre Marie Lejeune's creative process, hands remain the central pivot. Everything starts with a drawing, dozens of drawings, continuous spurts that always reveal his love of color, free gesture and unrestrained spontaneity, enabling him to rediscover the ancient pleasure of his assemblages and paintings. Isolated in the studio, cut off from outside concerns, he unleashes his energy in a rhythm designed to surprise, so as to forget sculpture and rediscover the pure pleasure of dialoguing with paper. Sometimes the whole is enhanced by collages, as in the recent series devoted to the bodies of sportsmen and women. Here, in the thickness of the line and the gush of color, elementary shapes emerge: circles, truncated squares, curved lines, flattened planes. Then comes the long, slow process of decanting and sorting. Watching, letting relationships emerge and take shape. The creation of small-scale models confirms or invalidates the intuition. Some are then purely abandoned, while others are made on a larger scale. (...)

Each sculpture presents itself metaphorically as the link between man and architecture, between life and the artificial, between knowledge and experience, and so on. It is for this reason that Pierre Marie Lejeune's works function as a series, even if each remains independent and autonomous.