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2009
Oratory
Hacienda San Jose, Baca, Yucatan, Mexico.
Jean-Charles Pigeau: born in 1955, a graduate of the Parisian art schools l’Ecole Boulle and l’ENSBA, sculptor, teacher in charge of the module “Volume Installation” at l’ESAH, Le Havre Art School, since 1993.
For more than twenty years, Jean-Charles Pigeau has been working in the area involving cultural exchange. He dealt with the Roman heritage in Vaison-la-Romaine and with the Kanak culture at the Tjibaou Centre in New Caledonia. But it is certainly the vast and diverse pre-Hispanic Mexican civilization which has taken up most of his attention since 1992.”
J Leenhardt.
For three consecutive years he spent time developing projects on industrial wasteland in Mexico at the “Fundidora” of Monterrey and in 2009 made a monumental piece of sculpture/architecture: the Oratory in Yucatan.
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length: 12.20 m. Height: 8.50m.
Stone, cement, whitewash.
Stairs and base: yucatan marble. |
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Skylights with rainbow colors.
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Chapel with gold leaf, height: 2.25m., diameter 1.30m.
Polished stainless steel mirror.
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The setup in Baca, Yucatan.
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Plaster moulding of the « labna » chapel.
2008.
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Mouldings cut up.
Jean-Charles Pigeau. October 2008.
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Producing the « labna » chapel.
Skylight modules with masaroca cement.
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Oratory with Buddha socle opening on the « labna » chapel entrance.
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Moulding the Oratory's roof.
December 2008.
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Setting up Buddha.
December 2008.
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Fabrice Gohard and Jacques Leenhardt.
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