Gilles Roux
My name is Gilles Georges Roux. I was born on March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, in Saint Tropez, where I lived throughout my youth. I then studied at the School of Fine Arts in Macon (71) before leaving for Italy where I have lived for forty years now, first in Bologna, then in Elbe, and currently in Rome.
My aesthetic research, since it is a research in question, consists of searching for ideas of forms, which I call “morpho concepts” and interpreting them in an aesthetic key.
The resulting works have great coherence, conceptual in the first place, but also formal, a single format (100×70) a single technique (colored pencils on black paper, white ink graphics).
More than the search for the effect, it is the rendering of the idea that interests me.
In my work we can distinguish two very distinct “lines”:
The Shape of Time rather centers on concepts from general relativity (bands of seasons symbolizing the passage of time are distorted by gravity, for example).
Quantum butterflies. In this series, I symbolize subatomic particles or energy quanta with butterflies (for example, we will have a bundle of purple butterfly quanta which divide as they pass through the interior of a crystal into a cascade of butterfly quanta). ‘lower yellow then red energies).
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“INTERPRETATION IN MULTIMONDI” Multiple universes. This interpretation was first developed by Hugh Everett, an American physicist who first hypothesized that Schrodinger’s Phi wave function did not collapse upon measurement but split into two arms of universes.
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“SCHRODINGER’S BUTTERFLIES” The work is a variation of the famous “Schrodinger’s cat”, but in this case the difference in state is highlighted by the change in color of the butterfly which changes from blue to purple, in a branch of the blue universe and in another viola.
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“PHOTONS – POLARIZED BUTTERFLIES” The drawing is read from left to right (past future). At first the butterflies are in chaos, then they pass through the blue vertical polarizing crystal which only selects the butterflies in a vertical position. Instead, crossing the green polarizing crystal they all come out in a horizontal position.
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“DISCRETE LEVELS OF EXISTENCE” This space-time landscape is inspired by discrete energy levels of electrons around the atomic core. The possible layers are determined by their vibration (the number of complete cycles possible in a certain orbit).
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“MOUNTAIN RELATIVISTIC TIME” Time passes faster at the top than at the bottom (gravitational force decreases the speed of time). In this drawing the time represented locally by its four seasons passes faster at the top of the mountain (more seasonal stripes) than at its foot.
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“CYCLIC TIME” In this drawing we imagine a circular shape of time. The timeline is read from left to right but at the same time from top to bottom. The two dimensions are represented on the same axis, they are in some way identical.
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“THE VARIABLE SPEED OF LIGHT” In this drawing space – time is defined by the past cone of light (one vertical time-like dimension – two space-like dimensions, length and width). The past is below, the present is above. The entire visible universe is immersed in the cone of light.
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“RELATIVISTIC TIME – EXTENDED PRESENT” This drawing presents the concept of the extended present typical of relativity and a time that is located between the past and the future. At present it is zero but it widens as the distance increases (for example the time extended to the sun is 8 minutes).
Gilles' exhibitions
- November 2021, “Farfalle” (butterflies) event against gender violence.
- March 2022, international exhibition “Ferro di Prua”, Scuola Grande San Teodoro, Venice.
- Maggio 2022, personal exhibition of the shape of time, Contesa arte via margutte gallery, Rome.
- September 2022, two-person “Existence”, EssErre gallery, tourist port of Ostia.
- November 2022, collective exhibition “Immagina”.
- March 2023, personal exhibition, Interieur 4 gallery in Trastevere, Rome.
- May 2023, gallery exhibition “Dama Blu” (Largo Argentino), Rome.
- July 2023, exhibition in Saint Tropez (Hôtel des Palmiers). Exhibition in the old Bourbon prison in front of the Aragonese castle in Ischia.
- August 2023, participation in an international “stati d’arte” exhibition at Villa Fidelio, Spello (PG). Exhibition at the “Domus Danaea”, Rome.
- November 2023, exhibition in the “Anima” (Ame) room, Rome.
Some exhibition posters
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