As a judgment on image of an animated film

The purple carriage drawn by six horses - purple them also - seems to be swept in a distraught leak. As a judgment on image of an animated film. The vehicle could shelter the King Louis XVI, in his flight to Varenne. It is the first idea through the spirit of the stroller, arrived in the Court of honour of the Palace of Versailles. Especially when he knows that violet is the color of royal mourning. This is more than two centuries that the French are made to the idea of a royal residence without King. But most visitors approach, more carriage appears as a giant toy. The work is Xavier Veilhan and opens the exhibition which he dedicated to Versailles to December 13. Xavier Veilhan is a sculptor in the fashion of the 21st century.

It represents how figurative, almost traditional subjects, is using current technologies that are part of our daily lives. Thus he distorted the coach to express the movement. Like horses, which are launched with lyricism into space. To get such an effect, he has shaped a horse ideal forms in plaster, small format, it was scanned and then animated it in 3D, after studying the movement of the animal in films. Finally, it has printed a different movement for each of the six standards and sent his models so that they are made in metal in a foundry near Paris.

Veilhan Versailles, the new blockbuster of the castle is composed of 16 parts of which three are located in the Royal residence and the rest outside (and therefore free access). The whole is worth moving. Veilhan, contemporary artist, but also real sculptor, was able to marry perfectly the environment of the end of the 17th century and the 21st century. Everything is matter of proportions and here it works. In the great basin, in the Park, groups of nine architects Black Aluminum are installed close to the statues, voluptuous women, representing the rivers of France. The two worlds do not compete. Architects are represented by foot on grooved bases. They obey the rules of public statuary: size human plus 20. Position in an East-West axis of the Park, the artist used Google Earth. The representation of these famous architects, Norman Forster Tadao Ando and Jean Nouvel, was the subject of a long process, ranging from making an appointment for a session of laying on a rotating platter, modelling.

Optical illusions

But why the architects Xavier Veilhan considers that it is of the great men of the 21st century, in line with those that Louis XIV had used for Versailles. All the facilities is not a story built. Great view, in the distance, the days where there is no wind, you can see a spectacular spray of water, top of 100 metres. He is not out of the imagination of ours, but rather that of Xavier Veilhan. "Louis XIV could have this if it had the technical means."The artist also plays with optical illusions. On the so-called "Green carpet", the extensive grassed visible from the Castle, he designed an anamorphosis, a work that uses an optical illusion to produce what he calls the "Moon", a black sphere consisting of a multitude of small spheres in polyurethane.

But perhaps the most fascinating room of this exhibition is that the smaller size. Veilhan was shaping in 50 centimetres of an alloy of bronze and manganese, a kind of contemporary ideal woman. It is there, naked on a pedestal of two metres. It is beautiful - no riotously beauty. His image was composed from the bodies of three real women. Its shape is perfect; It appears to be almost real, impressive despite its small size. And all visitors spend at his feet to continue the tour. It is perhaps the true Queen of the Castle.