It is with great emotion that I have just learned of the death of Jean-Luc Vilmouth at the age of 63.
A graduate of Metz Fine Arts, his first sculptures were influenced by minimalism and conceptual art, but it was his passion for everyday objects that made him known. It hijacks their environment and changes their size to better question the relationship we have with each of them.
“I’m an augmentor,” he liked to say. “I think objects help us understand our social evolution.” An approach that will lead him to monumental interventions like the two factory chimneys of the Manufacture d'Armes de Châtellerault which he transforms into a remarkable viewpoint over the city.
Jean-Luc Vilmouth had a taste for transmission. His students at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris will keep the memory warm.
My thoughts go out to his family and loved ones as well as to the professors and students of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.