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  • Artist Statement
  • Rodrigue Glombard (bio)

Since the end of my artistic training in 1989, I have been living and working in Lyon. I was born in Martinique and I am imbued with my Creole heritage along with influences from around the world. I express myself through painting, drawing, and also by volume in sculpture and in temporary constructions, usually arranged in very large dimensions. Since 1997, I have regularly inserted a painting or a drawing in my daily notebooks. Thus, my work is structured around temporality. The themes of my most diverse creative works are linked to time, to memory, and to the ephemeral in the continuity of the instant, to the fragility of our environment over and against our schemes, but also from our fragility in the face of nature’s reaction when she decides to reassert her rights. My preferred materials are stone, wood, earth, sand, water, and cords of coconut fiber or hemp. Through the nobility of these materials, I attempt to reconstruct a kind of energy that takes its origins in the soil, like totems. [End Page 907]


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Rodrigue Glombard, Cumulus Fractus temporary installation (2014) Limestone, coir rope, bamboo, and peat (16’ x 16’ x 10’)

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Rodrigue Glombard, Cumulus Fractus temporary installation (2014) Limestone, coir rope, bamboo, and peat (16’ x 16’ x 10’)

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Rodrigue Glombard, Untitled, Transition series (2013) Acrylic on canvas (35” x 54”)


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Rodrigue Glombard, Untitled, Transition series (2009) Acrylic, oil, and pigments on mounted canvas (59” x 74”)

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Rodrigue Glombard, Untitled, Transition series (2009) Acrylic, ink, and graphite on wood (18 ½” x 18 ½”)

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Rodrigue Glombard, Untitled, Transition series (2009) Acrylic, oil, and pigments on mounted canvas (59” x 74”)

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Rodrigue Glombard

RODRIGUE GLOMBARD, who was born in Martinique, studied at the École Régionale des Beaux-Arts in Besançon, France, from 1983 through 1989, before moving to his current residence in Lyon in 1991. The work he produces as an artist is not limited to one genre; his oeuvre includes painting, installations, photography, sculpture, drawing, and scenography, most of which reflect on “time, memory, and transience,” recurring themes in this artwork. His work has not only been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout Martinique and France, but also in the Dominican Republic, Spain, and Sri Lanka. (To view one of his online journals, go to YouTube: Carnets quotidiens de Rodrigue Glombard <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnxLJtoACIo>).

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