Collection: Alain TERGNY

LUMINOUS LABYRINTHS

From the 70s to today, Alain Tergny's work is abstract and has its source in the Virtual Volume Drawings of Josef Albers, the perspectives of Gorgio de Chirico, as well as the "Empire of Lights" of René Magritte. These influences mark a gap with the different manifestations of Kinetic and Optical Art of then and today.

In every journey through the pieces of his work, in every corner of these labyrinths that defy perception, a profound spiritual sensitivity becomes tangible, reflected by the virtuoso challenges he imposes on the laws of physics.

Alain Tergny dominates the materials and lighting systems he uses in his sculptures, converting the opaque into translucent, and the translucent into brilliant, only a sensitive gaze will be able to perceive the imminent poetry contained in each line, in each angle, in each plane.

Luminous labyrinths are a metaphor for reality, borrowing its planes and lines, carrying us through life by a parallel path that suddenly branches off, faced with the choice, chance takes its place and makes us slide along an oblique plane, or climb by a vertical ridge.

The play of illusions that the work creates bathes us in doubt, where faith barely gives us a vanishing point, allowing us to continue for a while with conviction, until suddenly an edge shines and opens onto a moiré in which one color on top of the other unleashes translucent ranges with infinite combinations, plunging us into this reverie where white is the sum of all colors: then yes, we can say that it is so, because for a moment, our soul has been filled with light.

Mario Fonseca