François Morellet - Tell rome morellet

“Tell rome morellet” is the title of the project that Francois Morellet realized at VOLUME!’s location. He avoids transforming the complex architecture of the space and prefers to install his neon tubes in a not invasive way to create a subtle energetic exchange between the architectural and the artistic elements. Morellet realizes his modular geometric lights through mathematical calculations on the irrational number (Pi number). The result is a programmed variation that is unpredictable and unstable creating tension between the artist’s works and the place as a common point of communication. His lights are in contrast with the route he signed with geometrical drawings. According to the artist, this is a way to contrast the linear architecture’s layout made of vertical and horizontal lines and to go beyond time and space. Morellet’s aim is not the modification of the place, but the creation of new routes through his works. “Serpertant en haute tension”, “pi Greco Rococo bleau” and “pi Greco Ferococo n°14” are the luminous steps of a walking, creating a trip that goes beyond the architectural reality and silently reveal a new type of space.