Etienne Bertrand Weill

Overview
Etienne Bertrand Weill
‘Sculpting light’ [Sculpter la lumière] is the title behind E. B. Weill’s project, who in the 1950s began his kinetic work based on light in motion. Inventor of his own tools and creative processes conceived specifically to produce these families of images, it was in around 1957 that he began to build mobiles made from simple materials (wood, glass, Plexiglas, wire...) that he then subjected to light and various movements. E. B. Weill imagined an art where the film would not have “even enough time to seize the contours of the object. What remains of the object’s form is a new transient appearance”. This momentary appearance, he would name “Metaform” [Métaforme].
In a dedicatory poem written in 1963 entitled “ Un commerce de lumières forgées avec le surnaturel ” (A Trade of Forged Lights with the Supernatural), Jean Arp echoes his admiration for E. B. Weill’s “Metaforms”, which he likened to “an astral combing... ropes of stars... from real stars to dreamy companions... hourglass wonders... vibrations and waves of flowers.” A book project is later born in 1964, imagined as a ‘naked’ dialogue between Arp’s poem and 12 of E. B. Weill’s “Metaforms”. It would nevertheless remain in the state of a preprint model. Galerie Maria Wettergren is delighted to publish, for the first time, a limited edition of this unseen art book, based on the original model. The publication is scheduled for the start of 2023.
 
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Works
  • Liens
    Liens
  • Courante
    Courante
  • Chevauchée Iréelle
    Chevauchée Iréelle
  • Saltarella
    Saltarella
  • Ensoleillée 107 5/25
    Ensoleillée 107 5/25
  • Les Arbres
    Les Arbres
  • Cantate
    Cantate
  • Pégase
    Pégase
  • Chacone
    Chacone
  • Forges
    Forges
  • Ondée
    Ondée
  • Clé De Lune
    Clé De Lune
  • Circé
    Circé
  • Contrepoint
    Contrepoint
  • Solo pour Cuivre
    Solo pour Cuivre
  • Translation Rectilinéaire. Psaume 126
    Translation Rectilinéaire. Psaume 126
  • Magnificat
    Magnificat
  • Proposition Pour Un Décors Classique
    Proposition Pour Un Décors Classique
  • Justice
    Justice
  • Magnificat
    Magnificat
  • Envol des Tangentes
    Envol des Tangentes
  • Le Passage
  • Le Passage
    Le Passage
  • Tourbillonnante
    Tourbillonnante
  • Fantaisie Pour Une Étoile
    Fantaisie Pour Une Étoile
  • Sans Titre. Eblouissante
    Sans Titre. Eblouissante
  • Comme des Roseaux
    Comme des Roseaux
  • Mesure À Mille Temps
    Mesure À Mille Temps
  • Fugitive I
    Fugitive I
  • Fugitive II
    Fugitive II
  • Chants Hélices
    Chants Hélices
  • Psaume LVII
    Psaume LVII
  • Colère
    Colère
  • Figure Quasi Mathématique
    Figure Quasi Mathématique
  • Caprices Irisés
    Caprices Irisés
  • Andromède I
    Andromède I
  • Averse
    Averse
  • Mirage Sous La Mer
    Mirage Sous La Mer
  • Toldot
    Toldot
  • Nacrée
    Nacrée
  • Mirage
    Mirage
  • Mirage
    Mirage
  • Arabesque
    Arabesque
  • Kol Hazamir
    Kol Hazamir
  • Echevelée Direct
    Echevelée Direct
  • Vers d'Autres Rives
    Vers d'Autres Rives
  • Etude pour un trio - 14eme Variation
    Etude pour un trio - 14eme Variation
  • Evolutive
    Evolutive
  • Souvenir d'Une Danse
    Souvenir d'Une Danse
  • Ouragan Solaire
    Ouragan Solaire
  • A Venir
    A Venir
  • Solaire
    Solaire
  • Venue d'ailleurs
    Venue d'ailleurs
  • Figure Couronnée III
    Figure Couronnée III
  • Polytonale
    Polytonale
  • Dansante
    Dansante
  • Lumière d'Ombre
    Lumière d'Ombre
Biography
Etienne Bertrand Weill

E. B. Weill’s pioneering work remains avant-garde even today. The 2012 retrospective at the BnF, Vertige du Corps, testifies to this and was preceded by a large number of solo and group exhibitions, as well as screenings of “ Music for the Eyes.” E. B. Weill’s work can be found in private collections and museums in France including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Musée Reattu, Arles; and the BnF, Paris. His works can equally be found in collections in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany and Israel.

 
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