2018

In recent years, wood has been the
privileged resource of François-Xavier Laloi,
while at the same time his work
recently deployed in the field of
sculpture. It must be said that his previous practice
painting, because it is strongly anchored in
a reflection of the processes and the material
implemented, very naturally determined what
shifting.

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The attention he pays to his favorite material,
in particular to industrial processes
processing and conditioning it undergoes,
gives the artist's talk a dimension
far more complex than suggested by
first of all, the simplicity of the figures given to
see. The elements he recovers in forms
already debited or packaged (pallets, bags
firewood, etc.) have in common
to have been the subject of a first destination.
Their recycling then participates in the reversal -
or workaround - a process which most
time, should have led to their degradation
even their disappearance, once past the stage of
garbage, debris or ash.

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The resulting forms then send us back
inevitably to Giuseppe Penone. And if the
Trees are well called, one more review
attentive to the approach at work here distinguishes it
explicitly from the artist's heroic approach
Italian. François-Xavier's company, led
with humor and derision, is indeed more
modest: there is no longer any question of truth but
an assumed recourse to artifice, it is not a question of
find the tree itself but more simply
his image.

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Edouard Monnet
Director of the Videochroniques association in Marseille.