"To watch Sébastien Preschoux work is to accept to oscillate between the serenity of a work allowing itself to be built without haste and the tension of an infinitely precise gesture, gracefully measured, drastically governed by a process of measurement and counting. The work stretches out in time, punctuated by the repeated gesture of handling the ruler and then the compass. Without impatience, Sébastien Preschoux unrolls the movement of the drawing in time, lets the material unfold in space."
– Valérie Nam
Sébastien Preschoux's work takes many forms and is the result of a well-honed mental programming that allows him to generate colorful works made of alternating solids and voids.
Deeply influenced by optical art, but also by the values of the Bauhaus teaching which advocates an instruction based on the fundamental value of manual work, Sébastien Preschoux creates works whose rigor could evoke that generated by a machine. Yet his creations are devoid of any technological intervention.
For his two-dimensional works, whether painting or drawing, Sébastien Preschoux anchors himself in questions related to space, light and movement. His compositions, which make our perception unstable, give a vibratory effect. All in rigor and serenity his creative process is drastically governed by a counting process, punctuated by the repeated gesture of handling the ruler and the compass.
His three-dimensional wire sculptures allow at the same time to materialize forms, structures, built in a rigorous and mathematical way while they seem to dissolve in the space, to be integrated there at the point of dematerialization.
Stretched between floors, walls and ceilings, the wires trace lines which, juxtaposed to each other, draw immaterial geometrical forms. The work is no longer external to the spectator, it structures the very space within which he circulates, modifying the perception he has of the space that surrounds him as he wanders. Because the wire allows what the sculpture does not allow: to penetrate inside the composition itself, multiplying the possible points of view for the spectator.
Of a pure aesthetic, his sculptures or drawings are articulated with poetry and delicacy to create a spatial harmony.
Sébastien Preschoux was born in 1974. Self-taught artist, his work has been presented by prestigious Parisian institutions such as the Palais de Tokyo, the musée du quai Branly, Nuit Blanche or the City of Paris.