The project
For their monumental project Build(dingue), Anne Donzé and Vincent Chagnon plan to build a "glass district" of nine buildings. Each building is made of blown glass cubes, placed one on top of the other like boxes or "apartments" in which little everyday scenes are played out in pâte de verre.
These modular buildings, which can also be dismantled, convey a recurring theme of the duo's work together: voyeurism in transparency, but also a call to be open-minded and open to others.
The project will be implemented with the Foundation's support over the next nine months, during which the duo will record their impressions in a log book. It will be possible to follow the creation of the work on the Foundation website from July 2014.At the end of the nine months, the work will be unveiled to the public at the Collection gallery in Paris in January 2015.
Vincent, a glassblower, trained in Quebec and the Czech Republic, while Anne, a pâte de verre specialist and contemporary jewellery designer, gathered a wide range of experience at the CERFAV (Centre Européen de Recherches et de Formation aux arts verriers) in Vannes-le-Châtel and the Massana School in Barcelona, where she studied contemporary jewellery.
Working together, they have created several collections of containers that tell a story, with comical shapes and names, as well as a critical message, denouncing a society based on excessive consumerism.
In these collections, containers and contents form a whole: Vincent blows a glass bubble, into which Anne places a molten pâte de verre figure. They achieve their wish to combine their two respective techniques, each having learned something about the other's.