The stirrers
To process the enormous and
multifaceted work that Marceau Ivrea has left behind, the
Chronicles
of Mapuetos,
Patrick Lowie has been extracting paper snippets randomly (as one
would do when pulling lottery numbers). Those snippets made of written
sentences would then be assembled and form a logical suite. It is as
if Patrick Lowie is trying to structure what was unstructured, while
keeping the poetry intrisincally present in the text natural
destructuration. Marceau Ivrea tells us that, in Mapuetos, basic
ingredients are wind galvanized iron and stirrers, small 6 inch long
woodsticks expelled out of the Imyriacht volcano. The stirrers are
thus born from the fictitious mountain of wisdom.
As a concrete representation of the
work he is doing with the literary and poetic work of Marceau Ivrea,
Patrick Lowie has been making conceptual artwork pieces, at time
appeasing, at time intriguing, unique, sometimes lit or numbered, but
always with Mapuetos in mind. Everything is handmade with rigor,
concentration, and meditation involved. He develops and assembles
manually the stirrers, as he does poetically with the snippets of
paper taken out of the work of Marceau Ivrea; placing the woodsticks
side by side in a complex and organic composition.
Twenty stirrers minus four
The stirrers n°15 & 16
unique design for Lucia Picaro
The stirrers n°14
unique design for sale
The stirrers n°13
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The stirrers n°12
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The stirrers n°11
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The stirrers n°10
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The stirrers n°9
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The stirrers n°8
unique design for Pascal François
The stirrers n°6 & 7
unique design for La Villa Janna, Marrakesh, 2014
The stirrers n°5
unique design for sale
The stirrers n°4
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The stirrers n°3
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The stirrers n°2
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The stirrers n°1
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