Toulouse. Pascal Josse an artist on the move
Installed not far from Réquista, in La Selve, Pascal Josse creates sets for museums and cinema whose signature is that of a rich and artistic gaze.
Pascal Josse loves movement. The shapes, the curves on a body, an attitude, a way of being, which is the signature of being. Pascal Josse has this eye to discern its beauties and imperfections. He has this talent of knowing how to make them immortal with a few strokes of a pencil on a sheet of white paper. The material does not lose its virginity, it is embellished with these lines which are a testimony, a signature. “I changed my life the day I entered the School of Fine Arts in Caen. I was 17. I have always drawn. In the fine arts, a teacher helped me progress by tracking down my flaws, calling out detail to detail. I owe him a lot ”. Also, many years later, the one who loves music, “but I don’t have that extra thing that makes the difference”, remains in the movement. It makes the imagination real through its multiple ephemeral decorations for cinema or memory for museums. A profession that does not bear a name, which calls for so many skills in ironwork, carpentry, video, in many things that made Pascal Josse invented his profession. He imagined the tools, the shapes, to such an extent that his main toolbox is his imagination. The man abounds with ideas which skate in the well of deep sleeps. “I like a good night’s sleep or a nap when problems emerge replaced by solutions”.
Contemporary art
From his youthful years, Pascal Josse has kept the memory of a career as a sculptor of contemporary art accompanied by success. He is new, dares, disturbs, mixes styles.
On will say precursor.
“The reviews were the same excellent. But, I was not selling ”. The sculptor says it with humor, distance. Was it luck? “When you start selling works, you can quickly be locked into a style that you have to reproduce ad infinitum to meet the expectations of buyers.” Pascal Josse then drops this sentence. “No one has ever imposed things on me.” The sculptor will exhibit four times at the International Contemporary Art Fair in Paris. It’s the place to be to be seen, to be recognized. But Pascal Josse took a whole other path. That of the freedom that the land of Ségala allows him, of a beautiful pond in front of his workshop which tore an “oh” of wonder from the Sultan of Oman who came to meet him.
Pascal Josse designs breathtaking decors, likes perspectives, details, the requirement of excellence.
He remembers the days of 8 to 4 hours drawing at the school of fine arts in Caen, in a shot of the quintessence of a will so close to perfection.
She guides her life.