05.04 → 19.04.2025
In this workshop, Michel Jocaille invites children to create wax sculptures of butterflies. Inspired by his work Stargate, which is presented as part of "Ornementa", this workshop is a tribute to the work on flowers carried out by Maison Lemarié, a resident of le19M.
En suivant les conseils de l’artiste, les enfants créeront des papillons colorés en papier et apporteront du relief à leurs œuvres en les plongeant délicatement dans de la cire.
En les initiant à la technique de la sculpture en cire, Michel Jocaille invite les participants à un voyage au cœur de son esthétique artificielle et extravagante.
Les participants repartiront avec leurs papillons sculptés en cire.
Retrouvez l'oeuvre « Stargate » de Michel Jocaille dans le parcours d'« Ornementa » !
Artiste
Michel Jocaille is a contemporary artist from the north of France. He works as artist-in-residence at POUSH. He uses mixed media to create sculptures and installations on different scales, most of which are made up of assemblages of materials with a camp aesthetic, driven by a sense of artificiality and exaggeration which lead to a theatrical extravagance. The artist is interested in questions relating to the construction of identity and love. His favourite materials are wax, paraffin, and printed velvet panne, which he works on using a digital laser. His images are the result of digital photographs that he creates using a distorting mirror, focusing on the natural world (anemones, jellyfish, coral, flowers, animals, etc.) that give an impression of fluidity and hybridity, to reveal the idea of an equitable and hybrid world in constant mutation, like a queer, egalitarian ecology.
A workshop lasts 1 hour 15 minutes.
Participants will take their wax-sculpted butterflies and flowers home with them.
An adult must be present throughout the workshop session (1 adult for every 2 children).