Vortex (2014). Jurong (China)
The site is known as the "Silk Dragon" and the work, commissioned by site proprietor and contemporary art patron Michel Ji, has its roots in this allusion. Jean-Bernard Métais has come up with a mirror-finish stainless steel vortex that seems to aspirate the deformed reflection of passers-by into the sculpture's spiral movement, imbuing the "dragon" with the mysteriously symbolic, sometimes disturbing power that fuels the collective imagination.
Medium: mirror-finish stainless steel.
Height 9 metres, length 13 metres.
News
- Sydney 2023
- Séoul 2024
- Qianhai Word - Shenzhen 2020/2021
- Crossing 2020 - Pittsburgh (en cours de création)
- Place Making Bruxelles 2018-2019
- Core Nubes- Bourget Airport - 2018/2021
exposition
- exhibition
- EXPO 1/72è LandART2023 TOULOUSE
- LES EXTATIQUES 2021
- Exposition IVRESSE 2022
- THE SENSORIAL ROOM 2019/2020 Galerie La Forest Divonne
- EXPO Sensorial room - Castel of Poncé/Loir
- KOMOLEBI
- Exposition "VIVRE" Abbaye de Silvacan
- "IVRESSE" Mai juin 2017 Paris Galerie Laforest divonne
- "ESPRIT DE VIN" 2016/2017 Lilles musee des Beaux arts
- "LES TEMPS IMPARTIS" 2015 Bruxelles Galerie la forêt Divonne
China (2012-2019)
- AoYang 2018
- Sanya -2018-2019
- Red Sun - Shangra
- Wind Organ - Nanjing
- Constellation - Wuhan
- Phoenix-Oriflamme - Tianjin
- Vortex (2014). Jurong (China)
- Sensorial Room - Jurong 2142
Selected Artworks
- Expo Dubaï 2020
- Gira londa (2017) Bordeaux
- Alliance, Cardiff (Wales)
- Litany (2007) - Valenciennes (France)
- The Wave (2007) - Luxembourg
- Walking through Walls (2006) - Luxembourg
- Alloted Time-Eclipse (1999-2002)
- Fluorescence - Japon (2009-2010)
- The Halo (2002) - Paris
- An Anthropological Structure of Imaginary (2005) - Strasbourg
- Immersion, London
Archives
- Brussels exposition June 8 to July 20 - Galerie LA FOREST DIVONNE
- Millennium gate
- Invalides (2013) - Paris
- Memorial (2013)
- Create yourself... (2011). Beijing (China)
- Eu - France (2010-2011)
- Equeurdreville - France (2010)
- Parc du musée de Tessé du Mans - France (2009)
- Cap d'Agde (France) 2009
- Clepsydra (2007)
- Corolla (temporary installation)
- Sensorial Chamber (temporary installation).
- Being-Names (2004)
- Chambre d'éclipse - Donjon de Vez (2002)
- Being-Word (2000)
- The Persistent Desire to Persist (2000)
photo
Project
- Sensor dream - lysfiskeren - Bergen - Norway
- Polen - London (2011)
- The Ring (2008). London
- Jussieu (France) 2009
- Stadion (2003). Salzburg
- Screen (2007). Liverpool (UK)
- Perth (Australia) 2009
- Vancouver (Canada) 2009
Work in Sand
- Expo 2015: Temps impartis et être mot
- Boa vibrant
- Temps imparti & paysages (2000)
- Eboulis 1998
- Depossession (1994)
- les réversibles
- irreversible 2002
- Les centemps