"We watch the sound order pass by. We hear the seconds rising in the clepsydra, the instruments breaking in an unpredictable line. In time, out of time. Life has frozen there, the explosion is gently eternal."
Penninghen graduate The concept of epicenter is a focal point in the work of Nicolas d’Olce. The epicenter is a generator of projectiles whose forms become imaginary vestiges, the memory of an explosion created from scratch, an artistic paradox between the fear of destruction and the excitement of a construction. In the center of his studio, debris are dispersed like the only remaining objects of an explosion.They are the vectors of a constant tension, and can be viewed as consequences of an accident. Plaster, wood, charcoal, plexiglass and gum, Nicolas d´Olce makes use of different materials...