Emerging Artist Arnaud Quercy Debuts Steel Sculpture "Murmuration"

Paris, France, July 30, 2024 --(PR.com)-- Arnaud Quercy presents "Murmuration," his first work in steel.

A steel sculpture set on a solid oak cube, 69 × 24 cm, 6.4 kg, catalogued AQC0657.
• Title: Murmuration
• Materials: Steel, oak support
• Dimensions: 69 × 24 cm
• Weight: 6.4 kg
• Year: 2024
• Catalogue number: AQC0657

The piece is Quercy's first in steel, a medium that required learning MIG welding and equipping a workshop for it. Steel imposes what other materials permit: a form is committed at the moment it is welded, and what the metal returns is never quite what the drawing prescribed.

The work holds a flock in flight above a block of oak. The two materials are kept apart rather than reconciled — the wood stays ground, the steel stays air, and nothing bridges them. What the sculpture does with that separation is the viewer's affair.

About Arnaud Quercy
Arnaud Quercy works in the abstraction of ideas: not the visible world, but whatever in an idea can be extracted, made into a rule, then executed in a material that has nothing to do with it. The rule is set in advance and held to the end; what interests him is the gap between what it prescribed and what appears. Hence a deliberately dispersed practice — painting, sculpture, ceramics, steel, sand, poetry, music — where the medium is not a choice but a consequence. The work continues under the name Ideamorphism, a practice-led inquiry made public at ideamorphism.org.