page_title: Sculptures Bachelard
section_title: Description and interpretation
hierarchical_section_title: Sculptures Bachelard / Description and interpretation
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Reflet sans anamorphose. Sculpture en bronze. Parc de la Villette Paris
context_page_description: Sculptures Bachelard is an In Situ work by French artist Jean-Max Albert installed in 1986 in the Parc de la Villette, Paris, France. It is named after the author of The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard. It consists of a set of 8 sculptures arranged around the perimeter of the Jardin de la Treille.
context_section_description: The work takes the form of an installation in two distinct parts: 
  Sculptures Bachelard : 7 sculptures in bronze green patina,  ±17 x 15 x 4 cm, Fusions foundry.
  Anamorphosis reflection, sculpture in bronze, green patina, 120 x 80 x 60 cm, Landowski foundry.
  When gazing into the sculptures, the space beyond and around is roughly framed. Combining in a cubist manner the differently framed perspectives, the sculptures propose to "render the quality of a specific portion of space".  A "rendering" not in the sense of a photograph – or it would be a kind of camera that would take one shot and then petrified itself in the form of the environment targeted – but more like an abstract model concentrating, agglomerating, in a sort of nucleus (and somehow in an animist concept) the spirit of this space. Each sculpture thus, transposes into a geometric summary portions of space which, according to their location,  suggest different qualities of atmosphere designed by Bernard Tschumi, Gilles Vexlard and Laurence Vacherot. 
  If six of the seven "viseurs" relate to the character of the different points of view, the seventh relates to a precise event : a modest bronze assemblage, fixed in the corner of a pond, below the thematic garden, perpetuates a tradition of garden landscape which conceals images, perspectives or symbols. Given favorable position of the sun, the reflection of this seemingly heterogeneous element appears a regular geometric. The reflection presents a circle encased in a square itself inscribed in a triangle. This figure referring to Bernard Tschumi’s master plan for the park.
caption: Reflection without anamorphosis
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