NO SPEECH Neither poet, nor dreamer, Quoting neither Barthes, nor Baudrillard, I only do plastic.	NO CURSUS 04 at high school diploma in arts, I didn't go in Fine Art School, I didn't make paleontology thesis.
LES CAPRICES DE BIBI I first stuffed animals at the age of 10. Then as an amateur palaeontologist, I put together my first curiosity cabinet by hunting around in the Touraine "faluns" every weekend. At 18, I spent my holidays breaking iron pans in Emmaüs. As a BTS plastic legs, ears and arms graduate (vocational training certificate), I looked after Grandpas from the 1914 war at Les Invalides. I went hunting for crocodiles in Egypt, as bad luck would have it there weren't any left. My taste for blood took me to Nimes where I attended bullfights for 10 years. I however found the time to suffer from third degree burns from a flying saucer at the Lunel carnival. Finally, I got down to hunting and grilling the last of the Mediterranean fish in Sète then in Marseille. Alas! There are some left still! I have some dubious urban practices: dark rooms, infernal music and at times I even dedicate myself to creating installations. I particularly persevered with the polyethylene CONTAINER and the traffic CONE, two universally available icons. Since 1992, I have SYSTEMATICALLY collected all plastic objects available for recycling sorting them by shape, nature and colour. I am undertaking in-depth research about plastic and I have specially converted my studio with this in mind. Then I researched the hidden shapes -animal as well as hominoid- that the designers who instigated these objects had in the back of their minds. Play the video. Only for adults. Plastic materials (in fact, polymers) are a pure product of 19th century and beginning of 20th. Plastic materials are stemming from petrol. Petrol is stemmin from decomposition of lakeside and marine organic matter (planktons). Then it is a fair things return to convert it in little animals, especially in fish, and to achieve a phylogeny of Toro by plastic. Plastics' little story : 1861 : the parkesin, one celluloïd, was patented by Parkes 1907 : Leo Bakeland created the Bakelite 1912 : Fritz Cattle launched the industrial production of PVC 1933 : Fawcett and Gibson invented the polyethylene. Regarding industrial process the injection pan is from 1878 an the extruder from 1879. Artists and designers : 1888, the Leprince's patent about celluloïd film for cinema From 1890, decorative objects were made in celluloid by blowing In 1916, Naum Gabo and his brother Antoine Pevsner made african masks in celluloïd In 1936, Hans Bellmer misappropriated celluloïd dolls Since 50's, the News Realists - in particular Arman, Spoerri, Nicki de St Phalle, Yves Klein - used plastic matter in all fields (sculptures, misappropriation, installations, performances) In 1957, Don Featherstone created the « phoenicoreptis ruber plasticus », plastic pink flamingo produced in 20 millions copies Around 1960, « Gladys » de Don Featherstone ( lampe-oie en polyéthylène) In 1970, « Cometa » by Ettore Sottscass (metacrylat lamp) In 1995, « Lumibär » by Heinz Klein and Hans Georg Leidig (polypropylene bear-lamp) Press Review