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FLYING MACHINES VOLANTES

EXHIBITION Jean Leclercqz - Brussels - Belgium

Rue Saint-Josse 19 • 1210 Bruxelles
From Wednesday to Saturday 14:00 to 16:00 with appointment (Tel : +32 478 53 45 63)

Changes occurs. Planes are energy consummers. Other technologies will have to be invented for cleaner planes, and will request a new creativity.

Being inspirated by old timers planes flown by heroic pionners, Jean Leclercqz tries to innovate, blending yesterday and today planes.

Jean Leclercqz has created more than 100 original planes, some of these being pictures of several square meters, and others tryptics of different sizes. You can discover some of these creations in the Gallery area of this site.

In December 2008, the Flying Machine Volantes were exhibited at Eurocontrol.

From May till October 2009, the Flying Machines volantes were exhibited at DEXIA

Jean Leclercqz about the FLYING MACHINES VOLANTES

"I have always thought that aircraft were a source of escape and dream, a possibility of running away from reality. It is like a string of time suspended and available for inner introspection and creativity. Evolving in the air is a kind of temporary freedom.

I also owe this fascination for flying machines to my childhood when during unforgettable days I pulled, let go, juggled with my kite, the eyes riveted in the sky.

Meanwhile, the world has evolved, one has to face new challenges and new technologies must be invented to create aircraft less greedy in energy, safe and respectful of our environment.

With my flying machines, I have tried to innovate being inspired both by vintage planes of the heroic pioneer and shapes of today’s eye- catching aircraft."

Jean Leclercqz

Born in 1955. After spending some years in Lousiana as a professor of French, then in Germany as a graphist for a european astronomical observatory, and after having traveled in all the continents within the framwork of his activities in the graphic industry, Jean Leclercqz , from about 10 years now, discover the Sahel with his wife, originated from Burkina Faso. In parallel to this, he continues his activities in Brussels, mainly within the European framework and develops his creativity through the graphic communicaiton company Altitude.

www.jeanleclercqz.com

Propellers and Hearts

Jean Marc Leydier, Amphitrion in ardèche ( France) will receive you in his nicely decorated home and will show to you his talents for cooking and painting. Go there and enjoy the break.

At first glance, the paintings of Jean-Marc Leydier evoke sewing, colourful fabrics, sequins, a mastered festival of colours.

Then the eyes of the visitor discover slowly ... It is not anymore about buttons, stones added to fabrics, or embroidery, comes the structuring of space by almost geometric lines through points of colour, school small rubber pieces glued by an attentive child.

The next glance stops on another canvas. Surreptitiously it comes to space cut into strips like a Mondrian who would have structured the space by free hands or closer to us, to a joyful Daniel Buren, almost childlike, but less systematic.

Jean Marc Leydier loves abstraction hampered by bright colours, cheerful rigor, and the lightness of the dragonfly on an almost straight old stone wall.

In this exhibition, the artist that he is from ever, shows us through his series of recent paintings, painted in the palm of the Ardèche granite and soft meadows, a new side of his researches between feverish abstraction, joy of colour and many other themes to explore.

Jean Marc Leydier

Les 3 Chemins

Route de Lyas

F-07000 COUX

France

www.les3cheminsdelyas.net

Kim Gilwong Blue Heart

Recycled aluminium and plexiglass becomes origami art planes.

Kim gilwong planes

Kim Gilwong's bi-planes are born from a youth dream to become pilot.

He then materialised his dream in his creations centered around planes.

Harmoneously blending, Korean artisitic tradition and modern art, Kim Gilwong meticouleously transforms, coca cola and red bull cans in origami art planes.

Kim Gilwong - planes details

These planes are then organised and displayed in grace full sceneries.

Born in 1977 in south Korea, Kim Gilwong shares is creative time between Korea and France.

Summer 2007.

Would you would have been landing at Gatwick or Manchester or Stanstead airport, you would have been able to see this pictures, from the sky, painted on the ground.

The pictures by themselves are probably discussable, but the idea is nevertheless art related to aviation, as you could not see them without taking height, and without VFR conditions !

Gatwick