Metal captures the light and tension of the gesture. In Antide's hands, copper or steel become vibrant, raw, sometimes oxidized surfaces, on which gold leaf traces reminiscences and horizons. The cold element illuminates, softens, and reveals a contemporary poetry, strong and sensitive.
Titans X
L’à part de soi
The part of oneself. Each being retains within themselves this unwavering part, brandished like a banner toward the world, which nevertheless remains the intimate hope of being more. They love time, every moment, with the fierce desire to grasp eternity. The foam churned by the winds that makes the waves carries within it the same infinity. Empty the oceans to retain the salt, at the risk of drying them up? Not to renounce all parts of oneself, to accept being them. Entirely.
Gold leaf on brass and stone (1300 US$)
Vers où ?
Where? Close your door to protect yourself, at the risk of retreating. Century-old locks hold the world together, contain its fractures, fill the gaps, and reassure without healing. Look at life through the keyhole or half-open your door?
Gold leaf on brass and stone (2000 US$)
Point de rupture
Breaking point. Horizontal point, perspective point. Limit point, vanishing point. Point of balance. Finding one’s measure, grasping one’s note, beyond gravity. A point : it is Everything.
Gold leaf on steel, stone base (1500 US$)
Deus ex machina
There are cold, dark mornings, promises of beautiful days, hopes of light and warmth.
A gentle tug that we accept for the pleasure of soon forgetting it.
To surrender to the present, when the eternal moment abolishes the second, to become the reflection of the sky, to love until it reaches the blue.
Gold leaf on steel (1500 US$)
Sincérité du soleil
The fleeting sincerity of the sun is expressed amidst its dazzling torments. It then sees the darkness of infinity, its beauty to be illuminated, the colors of present happiness. Between two rays, at the heart of the moment, to be the color of time that fades from us to follow its endless course.
Gold leaf on bronze and stone (1500 US$)
À tir d'ailes
At each stage of life, walls are erected, enclosed by doors barred with heavy locks. This vertical, insurmountable rigidity, however, fades away in the face of life as it is: it flies away on improvised wings, magnificent and fragile, magnificent because fragile.
Gold leaf on steel (1500 US$)
Soleil noir
« Á certaines heures la campagne est noire de soleil ’’ A. Camus (Noces 1958)
Gold leaf on steel, stone base (3300 US$)
Nostalgies
From the bottom of a drawer, nostalgia pulls us by the sleeve. Worn like time, corroded, old and beautiful, happy memories are adorned, when we summon them, with a gold they have never known. And this magic takes root in us.
Gold leaf on steel, stone base (2000 US$)
Cartographie des rêves oubliés
When the earth was flat, maps stretched out in long strips. Nights like paths under the stars, dreams like so many mysterious islands on the borders of known lands. The corrosion of passing time, eternity in a reflection.
Gold leaf on steel (from 1900 US$)
Entre les lignes / WIN-DOSE
In the heart of the shoreless and bottomless seas stretch lines to infinity.
Lines of flight and lines of construction which, when they meet, open for a fleeting moment windows onto the sky.
They are the cape in the storm, the roof in the storm, the golden light of the train that cuts through the night.
Until dawn.
Gold leaf on copper ( from 950 US$)
Fil de l'âme
At the bottom of a forge, in the darkness, the hammer strikes the light.
In its course, it carries with it a dark side and plunges it into the heart of all reflection.
Gold leaf on steel (1900 US$)
Chute !
When the day breaks, it sometimes stumbles over the horizon.
Then in serene silence, a part of him flows gently into the depths of the seas to secretly diffuse the azure of a summer sky.
Gold leaf on copper (1900 US$)
Indoor Rain (sorrow throught an eye)
The salty rains of the soul never dry up, streaming endlessly to try to extinguish the fire of despair.
It is pleasant to imagine that eye color gives the world its tones and nuances and that no one find exactly the same thing.
Tears have no color, life has all of them.
Tin on copper (950 US$)
Page
Memory is made of turned pages, a rusty flag, a stiffened banner that struggles to flap in the wind.
Leafing through it puts her back into the light: she lives again, loaded with the gold of happy memories, pierced here and there by the hazards of life.
Gold leaf on steel (1500 US$)
Les différences
The differences Get married In blue
Gold leaf on copper (950 US$)
Des mots dans le silence
A memory is a star that shines brighter than lost moments, and which nevertheless illuminates them in the depths of time. The star dispels the night, the word breaks the silence, memory abolishes time.
Tin on copper (1400 US$)
Dans le filet
To want Seize and hold, Embrace. And let it escape To want Explore behind the horizon Stumble Dream, Believe in possibilities. Life in a butterfly net.
Gold leaf and tin on copper and steel (950 US$)
Astrolabe
Measuring the stars in the heart of infinity, as if to reassure yourself in the darkness. Calculate, weigh, gauge, judge at your fingertips to forget that only time is limited.
Gold leaf on steel, tin and stone (2600 US$)
Verrou, vers où?
Life as a succession of rooms communicating through narrow and determining doors. Rites and rituals, hopes fewer than doubts: does a bolt opened on a heavy door close after our passage? Seeing the door and its lock is already controlling them a little, taming your destiny. Accept it.
Gold leaf on steel and Wood (1400 US$)
Vanité ?
Vanity? Texts written with fervor, to stop time in the face of the weight of tumultuous millennia in contradiction. Postcards that never arrive - or too late - and which turn into unpublished memories, missed opportunities, twilight dawns. The principle of the message, even indecipherable, moves like the thought that a loved one bestows upon us.
Gold leaf on cast iron and stone (5300 US$)
La chute
The falling window takes the reflection with it.
Only the point of view shifts.
Life is beautiful and the world is only what we make of it.
Gold leaf on steel (1400 US$)
La Clef
So many doors and locks, invented.
So many passages, so many outcomes.
So many ways.
So many keys.
Gold leaf on steel, stone base (2950$)
Solitude(s)
A drop and the ocean.
A tear welling up in the hollow of the eye, a moonbeam jealous of the sun, a silent perfume.
Gold leaf on copper (950 US$)
Débordement et liberté
Life like a river, certainly wild, which will always be subject to the slope, constrained by the reliefs.
Gold leaf on copper and tin (1200 US$)
Par dessous l’horizon
In the torpor of summer evenings, certainties sometimes discreetly shed a few tears. Sincere regrets—that would like to bubble—well up from taught geographies. Known flowers, explored worlds, roads, mastered dreams.
Not to have been and not to be, but to hope, finally, beyond the horizons, to conquer the soul of the oceans, to walk without end and without ground, without the sound of footsteps, without stumbling.
To love.
Gold leaf on steel and tin, stone base (2700 US$)