Discover the contemporary work of Patrick Allindre

I studied à the Villa Arson in Nice then at Saint Luc Brussels, at ERG, School of Graphic Research. I then followed a course in art history, up to a master's degree, at the University of Lille.

MICRONICON

Nietzsche says that one must still carry chaos within oneself in order to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

My work begins with chaos.

I choose magazines to put them through a document shredder, reducing them into a multitude of 4mm wide strips.

Like a gold prospector, I then patiently sift through these kilometers of paper waste, to a minimum. the search for nuggets, in search of tiny concentrates of beauty. plastic, which I collect and hoard.

After an IT course at through various image processing software,  I then give it to the user. these few survivors from 1 to 2 square centimeters another life by printing on aluminum in large format, from 1.4 to 100 cm. 1.60 m high by 25 à 30 cm wide.

Passed from waste to waste icons, they are the ÉELUSIVE.

These are a sort of vanities, Mémento Mori.

Because the vocation of all these publications printed throughout the world is to disappear. They occupy a place in the light for a few moments before being replaced, swallowed up by the flow of production. They are the symbol of the impermanence of the world, of its fragility. Moreover, even before their disappearance, these chosen ones were not remarkable. They were invisible, drowned in the mass, anonymous. My work relates to the incessant and universal struggle against the ephemeral, against the precarious, against the obscurity of life. of anonymity. I give to see the beauty and the preciousness of that there is in the interstices of the contemporary emergency.