La Linéa is a group that that weaves experimentation and production with live performance, the visual arts and transitory architecture.
For each project La Linéa personally handles design, manufacturing, and implementing the installation.
Their aesthetic and technical approach culminates in artwork that plays on the laws of physics using original and beautifully minimalist structural systems
They regularly use light flexible materials (ropes, strip iron, nets, textiles...) that they might place between rocks to capitalize on the forms created through tension, or alternatively they might anchor one end to a wall and leave another at the mercy of the elements to be twisted and deformed as though guided by some unknown hand.
Small or disproportionate elements, abstract construction or concrete machinery.
As a common denominator, La Linéa generates structures that are in constant movement, and are active through various environments, urban, natural or closed spaces.
Linéa was emerged from the crossing paths of François Derobert (originator of air devices, exprofessional climber), Antoine Petitrenaud (architect – sceneographer) and Guillaume Letestu (sceneographer) and Patrick Villard (multi-field chief technical officer).
LES faisceaux
Multi-pluralistic Artistic Group: La Linea
Plastic Installation at the Pont du Gard (France), 2005 1st Phase, Absence of Sound Dimension
LE Vent En Cage
Artistes: Philippe Jaminet, plastics technician & Marc Siffert, composer, double bass player
There was an issue concerning the air in this miners' town of Lewarde in the north of France. They said that, for the men who worked at the bottom of mines, the lack of oxygen and the firedamp explosion were two major and fatal dangers. In days long past, a turbine with large blades to blow air was connected to a machine such as a bicycle which was pedaled by children all day long for their fathers to breathe in the miners' galleries.
Inspired by their danger-fraught day-to-day life, my idea of translucent balloons which are sustained by continuously supplied air is a metaphor of a man's lung. The mines of the region have been definitively closed for years, but the history could come alive again in artistic form such as occurred in the sanctuary of a Museum of Mine.
For more information visit, www.shigeko-hirakawa.com
Air & PouMON
Artistes: Shigeko Hirakawa
La NAPpE
Originator: Sébastien Rinckel
La Nappe covers virtual and ephemeral spaces. Based on a concept of space experiments, it is designed as a structural thickness linked to a spatial envelope. This hybrid layer consists of a white stretch fabric that is attached to to a cable structure.
La Nappe’s "thick container" has many internal divisions. The double membrane is perforated with holes of different sections and covers topographic surfaces.
For more information visit, www.sebastienrinckel.com