HAND-MADE COLOUR SCULPTURES: SOME ARE PAINTINGS, SOME ARE STATUES, 2017.

For his installation, in the museum's first room, Vincent Beaurin has borrowed from the permanent collection, two life-size black panthers, made of enamelled porcelain, works crafted in 1959 by the Japanese ceramicist Kôji Yatsui, and arranged them with eight of his own pieces, to create something that is at once imposing and soothing, precise and hypnotic.

The main problematics of Vincent Beaurin's work are brought together here: colours and their energy, the landscape, saturated with water, air and light, the body, the figure, with their sometimes chaotic volumes, but often tense and organic, and even sexual, the sparkling - isn't the universe a cloud of sparkling particles? - and last of all, abstraction, abstraction in the sense of 'getting away from', as a motivation, a drive.