artist/ Lévrier-Mussat

France

“Nova descriptio”

Preamble

“Of a certain nature and its geometric genesis”

The origin of my artistic approach lies in the enigmatic luminous and iridescent density of a synthetic blue pigment that I have spent twenty years studying and transforming into squares according to the principle of an equation.

This vertigo has been etched into the back of my eye. I have worked “at the pace of a millimeter,” to borrow Aurélie Nemours’ expression, and I have ended up integrating the world of geometric art and its (in)variable aesthetic.

Continuing my research on the “blue of the outside” described by Merleau-Ponty in his writings, I discovered one day with some astonishment that the sky was the first “territory” to be mapped by man in ancient times in order to contain its immanence.
The divinatory rite of ornithomancy consisted of mentally dividing the sky into squares.

“There is a kind of stubbornness or disposition to be attentive to certain signs, as was the Auspex (a diviner described in Greek mythology), pointing his staff toward the sky, tracing a square in it, and waiting for birds to fly within this virtual perimeter to analyze their trajectory, predict the future, and understand the mysteries of the world…”
For some time now, I have fully embraced this strange coincidence, making it a focus of my research and shifting my work in new directions. I am now constructing, as rationally as possible, a “mathematical imagination,” a cosmometry based on the study of forms and matter. Fascinated by the myths of the universe, the history of
art, and ancient civilizations, I question the lesser-known origins of geometry and its manifestations, whether they come from nature, scientific data, or buried beliefs.

Could the circumscription of space have any connection with research into perspective and, today, spatial symmetry? In his remarkable publications, astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet explains in detail that cosmic harmony remains a foundation of science.
Geometric forms, whether natural or mathematical, are used in many cultures, from the most ancient to the most contemporary, as a set of phenomena and hypotheses, rituals and symbols capable of measuring the unknown and stimulating the imagination…