Langenthal revisité

2012

 

Photos©Baptiste Coulon

For the installation presented at the Ariana Museum, the artist focused on a frieze that decorates the pieces of a current porcelain service from Langenthal. This motif was enlarged to an exaggerated scale and reworked before being applied, using cut transfers, onto a series of plates. By playing with optical effects and shifts in proportion, Michèle Rochat introduces a new rhythm that overlays the regular cadence of the original ornament. Each plate thus becomes the bearer of a random fragment of the design.

Anne-Claire Schumacher, Curator, Ariana Museum