Olivier Morel, dont vous retrouvez les ateliers dans la plupart des DADA, expose ses œuvres à la Fondation atelier de Sèvres à Paris, à partir de ce vendredi (15 mai).
Intitulée "Yoru/Hiru" (nuit/jour), l'exposition nous fera voyager vers un Japon plein de contrastes. Entre tradition et modernité, urbanisme ultra-moderne et paysages hors du temps, habits traditionnels et costumes manga, les nombreuses œuvres d’Olivier Morel dressent le portrait de la société japonaise sans cliché mais avec humour et poésie.
Et comme avant-goût de l’été, la
série des plages avec ses vacanciers en pleine bronzette sera également
présentée lors de cette exposition ! L'occasion de découvrir un autre pan de l'oeuvre d'Olivier Morel, avec ces "PAMS", petites figurines modelées en résine.
"Yoru /Hiru", du 15 au 30 mai 2009, Fondation atelier de Sèvres - Espace Dupin, 5 rue Dupin 75006 Paris. Ouvert du mardi au samedi (sauf jour férié) de 13h à 19h.
[illustrations: oeuvres d'Olivier Morel, Geisha 3, Samouraïs 3, Nuit
– Triptyque Shinjuku, Baigneurs]
"When the Paris Museum of Music decided to restore the musical instruments kept in the storerooms of the former Instrumental Museum of the Paris Academy of Music, a priceless collection of 58 19th century brass instruments designed by Charles-Joseph Sax and sons was included.
After a century in storerooms, the silver-plated brass of the prototype saxophones, saxohorns, and saxotrombas had become seriously damaged from silver sulfide in the plating. Restoring them, however, posed a technical problem. The instruments could not be restored by conventional cleaning processes such as abrasion or chemical dissolution because these techniques would, in certain areas of the instrument, have left the brass bare.
As part of a sponsoring agrement set up with the Museum of Music, Electricité de France (EDF), France's Electricity board, took part in restoring the instruments by developing an electrolysis based technique to treat them.
Before commencing treatment, the Ecole Centrale of Paris, one of France´s leading engeneering schools, inspected the surface of the instruments. The EDF-Valectra Laboratory then tested the treatment, which eliminated corrosion by removing silver sulfide from the surface of the instruments. After successfully testing the method on a small number of instrument, EDF transfered the technology and know-how to ATELIERS OLIVIER MOREL, a metal restoration company that treated the rest of the Sax collection."
This article was published in 1997 in JOM journal.
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