Bugada & Cargnel

Continuel-lumière cylindre
1967
wood, plexiglas, motor, light bulb
289 x 251 centimeters

The light beams of the "Continuel-Lumière-Cylindre" are projected on a circular metalized edge at intervals thanks to a system of rotary caches. The metalized edge reflects the beams on a neutral background where they intertwine and disappear into themselves. The composition undergoes continual transitions and the ever-changing image wreaks havoc on the eye, disorienting the eye until it gives itself over to the mysteries of the work. Or on the contrary, it looses itself in the work: indeed, the enhanced circular structure of the object and the ephemeral circulatory logic of the light beams may reveal, as is the case in the 'Targets', a new allusion to the ocular globe.

Lampe pulsante projetée
1966
wood, metal, motor, light bulb, magnifying glass
94 x 23.5 centimeters

Being photonic, phenomenal, and spatial, LE PARC's light is no longer an object within itself (defined by its colour, material, texture...) like paintbrushes. For the "Lampe Pulsante Projetée" (1966), the image of the light source itself —a simple electric bulb—is projected on a wall. Tautology can be suspected but the principle of the projection excludes any possibility of contemplation: the irregular image appears intermittently on the wall due to a little mirror which, as it turns rapidly around a light bulb, obscures and reveals the image at set intervals. The sculptures forms a 'flicker' object that presents in a transitive or modified way the form, light, and our gaze (which is often the case in LE PARC's work) in order to enact the phenomenological mechanism of Plato's Cave: perception, as violent and distorted as it may be, must have its source in the finite systems of analysis in order to avoid any mystification or manipulation by the watcher.

Mouvement surprise avec lumière pulsante
1967
wood, light bulb, plexiglas, motor
30 x 30 centimeters