Cube Sphère Gold

Cube Sphère Gold
Artist: Cyril Lancelin (1975)
Installation date: 2021
Techniques: Electro-polished stainless steel
Located near the Saint-Gobain tower, Cyril Lancelin presents a decomposition of a simple volume, a cube. It's made from a regular assembly of reflective metal spheres. The solid is hollowed out by passages and openings. It's a three-dimensional drawing of a partition of fullness and emptiness. The artist invites visitors to immerse themselves in matter. The sculpture connects the infinitely small and the infinitely large, the human scale and the scale of the city. It's a kinetic experience open to public space.
A word about the artist
Born in Lyon in 1975, Cyril Lancelin is an artist with a passion for computer-generated images. After graduating in architecture in 1999, he began developing and creating 3D visualization and modeling teams in major architecture firms and in collaboration with artists in Paris and Los Angeles. Little by little, his ideas for imaginary houses and art installations took shape, and Cyril Lancelin decided to quit his job as an architect to devote himself to his art. Today, he lives and works in Lyon.
Through his work, Cyril Lancelin develops a hybrid of sculptures, immersive installations, drawings, virtual experiments and videos that weave links between the physical and the fictional. Notions of repetition and parametric generation are recurring themes in his work. Ephemeral or permanent, digital or real, his large-scale immersive artistic creations open up a poetic dialogue between the perception of space and the viewer.