François Vigorie’s sculptures are created in a know space which to him accompanies figurative space. He prefers glass which is a less used material. In the filiation of experiments on transparency introduced by Naum Babo, he offers us a succession of pure, crystal-clear metamorphoses, carved out of a rather difficult material which invites the imaginary through the internal interplay of its sensual and often analogical shapes ....

The material itself is beautiful, dense and rich between the sudden contrasts and the brilliant surfaces, the transparent and opaque areas, the ridges and the curves, the effervescence and construction.

At the same time it is subjected to the transmutations of an insidious corrosion so that iconography, the real and abstract are not in opposition, but maintain a well-balanced dialogue. Thus the preciousness of the material is delicately penetrated. The successive strata are carved from the inside by means of an astonishing erosion which remains the artist’s secret ...

Vigorie pariently fashions primordial totemic or quadrangular structures without these blocks carved out of optic glass never appear to be irregular. It is simply their meaning which becomes reorientated when exposed to the subjectivity of those beholding i ....

Gérard Xuriguera