about Felix Roulin

[anne (bxl)]

I noticed this work of Felix Roulin is the best quoted in the photo gallery. It really surprised me as I know his work, he is belgian teaching in the finest artschool of Brussels -and I am sure it's not an hasard!- but I have no feeling for his work. Why do you like it so much? Open my mind....

[JAZ]

Anne,
That's a good question. I'll be interested to hear the answer too. Perhaps it has somethign to do with the breasts? Actually, Maybe some people are entranced by the fact that the sculpture seems embedded in the wall? In that way it has no outer limitation.
Just speculation.
JAZ

[rderr.com]

Jaz

I love Roulin's work and for those who know me it has nothing to do with the breast. My favorite is Les Promeners, a long stonewall with a group of bronze figures walking between the two faces of the wall. There are stones removed from time to time to revel different body parts. And this down some lonely country road in the middle of the Ardennes Forest.

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[anne (bxl)]

yes, Jaz, it is embedded in the wall, and the body parts are molded on living models. I don't remember in which circumstancies but I remember I saw him molding a breast on a model.
The picture shows a piece embedded in the entrance hall of the "Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles" an art center that promotes Brussels and french speaking artists of Belgium located right in front of Beaubourg (the modern art museum in Paris)