Virgile Loyer

Virgile Loyer | Ceramist | France virgileloyer.com

Born in 1975. Lives and works in Yonne. The works are real. Like steles, in stoneware and wood-fired. Doubly inspired by the late poets René Daumal and Marcel Moreau, they probe the telluric origins of thought and intimacy. Sculptures like literary adaptations. Some time ago, Virgile Loyer set out on a multi-disciplinary expedition in search of the Mount Analogue, an island in the southern hemisphere, described as the highest mountain in the world, from which Daumal and his teammates never returned... Each stele is like a milestone designed to mark out the symbolic journey. Called " Kerguelen "or " Analogy "Each terminal exposes the imaginary topography of a place to the light of pataphysical stars. Contours and Ubu roi's gyrations compete for the surfaces of the volumes. Assembled on the plate, with no initial intention, the gesture remains attentive to the volition of the material, around a few major lines of force. Nourished by emptiness, the sculptures hint at the existence of an inside and an outside, of an undercut interior landscape, of a double, similar to the two of them. Hollow men those who haunt the stone, waiting for us to die so they can become one again.

Stéphanie Le Follic-Hadida
Catalog extract C14 PARIS, 2020