Regular visitors to the gallery will have been pleasantly surprised by this tenth anniversary. Indeed, ephemeral and edible sculptures were presented to the public.
Each color offered our curiosity and our appetite dishes to taste: the reds displayed cherry tomatoes, the yellows, straw-colored, gouda and the blues tangy candies. The bread was also colored, multicolored. A festival of colors.
These three sculptures are destined to disappear, to be eaten. If at an exhibition we are prohibited from touching, here you were invited to touch, feel, and eat.
It brings to mind that passage from the Bible where the prophet is asked to eat the book, which tasted like honey in his mouth. The artist invites us to eat his work, to eat his art in order to absorb it.
The three ovals slowly diminish, consumed by the guests, and the pieces of bread or other food items stuck like arrows in the ovals disappear, as visitors come and go and take the opportunity to admire the other works on display, including: mobiles by Uff Weiland, ethereal bamboos held up by a thread, photographs by Susana Dobal, each an invitation to travel, and the swinging paintings of Eliz Barbosa evoking jazz, in the midst of a festival. Dorothée Selz is the creator of these three ovals, three crowns of sugar.
It is her first exhibition at the Depardieu gallery. Dorothée is a painter and sculptor. Her works are gustatory, she designs them according to the venues and the event, with the aim: to satisfy the eyes and the taste in a playful way.
This tenth anniversary was very successful and appreciated by the friends of the Depardieu gallery. The idea of inviting the public to eat what is presented to them, in order to remember the sculptures, will remain a pleasant memory for its originality.
Thierry Jan
