{"id":269,"date":"2017-03-24T09:33:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T08:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alainpers.com\/gabarit\/?page_id=269"},"modified":"2026-10-16T11:10:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T09:10:38","slug":"artiste","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alainpers.com\/en\/artiste\/","title":{"rendered":"The artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visual artist Alainpers explores the boundaries between light, movement and perception. Through his sculptures and lumino-kinetic creations, he gives presence to the invisible.<\/p>\n<h2>Giving Shape to Time<\/h2>\n<p>Time cannot be seen. It flows, passes through us and slips away.<\/p>\n<p>Alainpers has always sought to make this elusive dimension perceptible. Light becomes his language, movement his form of expression, and time his primary medium.<\/p>\n<p>His works invite us into a unique experience: contemplating the passing seconds, discovering their rhythms and sensing their presence.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond measurement, another perception of time emerges.<\/p>\n<h2>Light as Revelation<\/h2>\n<p>At the age of 17, an exhibition of lumino-kinetic art profoundly shaped his vision and awakened his artistic vocation.<\/p>\n<p>Following a career in the aerospace industry and industrial design, Alain Persouyre, who became known as Alainpers, developed a distinctive artistic universe in which technical precision serves emotion.<\/p>\n<p>Light, materials and movement come together to create works in which time becomes visible.<\/p>\n<h2>Between Sculpture and Architecture<\/h2>\n<p>From precious objects to monumental installations, Alainpers explores every dimension of space.<\/p>\n<p>Crystal, metal, light and gold leaf form part of a shared visual language. Some works reveal the hours, minutes and seconds; others break free from conventional ways of telling time.<\/p>\n<p>At the intersection of contemporary art, sculpture and lumino-kinetic creation, his work questions our relationship with time, its beauty and its fleeting nature.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To sculpt time is to give shape to what has none.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visual artist Alainpers explores the boundaries between light, movement and perception. Through his sculptures and lumino-kinetic creations, he gives presence to the invisible. Giving Shape to Time Time cannot be seen. It flows, passes through us and slips away. Alainpers has always sought to make this elusive dimension perceptible. 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