Alain Vilatou, designer, likes the graphics of electronic cards from the 60s and 70s, he associates them with materials from industry. He recovers, cleans and reshapes pieces that were intended to be thrown away: wood, metal and electronic cards become luminous sculptures. These sculptures are unique by the origin of their elements but also because Alain Vilatou creates them alone, by hand, one by one.
Many things already exist in nature, around us. Just open your eyes and watch. We can still add certain elements to be able to share the vision that we have of what already exists. I don’t know if we create a lot.
explains Alain Vilatou, creator of light sculptures and founder of AV Lumen.
“ My initials are AV by adding Lumen, there was like a prostration vis-à-vis the light, vis-à-vis the object, which appears through the acronym that I have been using since the beginning of my creation with AV Lumen. »
At the end of the 1990s, Alain Vilatou, designer, rummaged around in the scrapyards of old electronic cards, fascinated by their aesthetics, he collected them. In 2004, he made it the theme of his luminous sculptures. Alain Vilatou combines materials that are rarely used: wood, steel and resin.
Restored and reworked, the electronic cards are associated with other pieces from industry such as weaving loom shuttles, old spinning mills or barrel staves, but also printing characters.
“It’s really the shapes of matter, the object as such. The loom shuttle, the shapes of shells or the curved shapes of staves inspire me and lead the creative process. Sometimes I add a few drawings, everything is done on the material. I integrate the electronic cards as if it were marquetry, there are very precise cutouts, but it’s the material that drives the creative process. »
Objects, sculptures or light paintings, Alain Vilatou offers the possibility of bringing out -or not- the circuits and the graphics of the printed circuits of the electronic boards and diffusing an ambient light.
“ I made sure that the lighting system was completely removable, so that we could have a completely independent power cord. May we free the luminous creation from this cord. To have it at home as an independent sculpture. To be able to choose to have the luminous object side but also not to use the luminous aspect of the sculpture”, concludes Alain Vilatou, founder of AV Lumen.
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