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GILBERT JOLLIET

Click to zoom the image(born 1948)
Sculpteur, poète, scénographe. Sculptor, poet, designer.

Gilbert Jolliet best known in Finistere, as Hamish Moffatt wrote the text poético-drama of the album.  He entitled this collection "ICAR'XXI." Icar 'with an apostrophe because it is not the story of Icarus itself. The mythological hero has served only as a starting point for reflection of the poet. XXI, because this process itself also to man of 21 century.


Qui suis-je? Who am I?

I started my career at the age of 17 years, through poetry.

Having recognized something like a deadlock in the handling of the word lying, I turned to the word incarnate.  So I wrote sketches first,
then plays and radio plays.

Meanwhile, I have given many performances and poetry recitals where I enjoy the art of saying and play.

Naturally, this experience led me to actor staging. At the direction of actors, I would soon add the creation of sets, then scenographies increasingly complex.

Is that parallel, for leisure, I draw and paint already (a constant in my way).Begun as an amateur, these acts were plastics and find roots
found a major step in my development as a result of an experiment in voluntary isolation (a stay underground for a week, by 450 meters of water in a salt mine).

At that time, I grew language radio. Author-director, I designed and put on air emissions produced on public radio channels Suisse Romande and Switzerland. The formal research unit was the sound of that phrase when I covered both social and political themes that purely cultural.

My commitment to the world of plastic creation would grow by creating an art gallery and the paper edition of multiple works (posters, art cards, books by artists, artistic stamps) .

Then, gradually, I decided to devote my life to creating pure.

Leaving my homeland, Switzerland, for Brittany, adopted land where I "ferment", I book my hours to sculpture, painting and writing.

ICAR 'XXI combining poetry, theater, sculpture, sound, stage design and interpretation stage is a jet that I intended to establish by this ambitious work.

In this endeavor, close contact with musical composition opens a new chapter in my adventure.

A little on the sidelines of the trail described here, mainly for financial reasons, I exercised sustained multiple activities in journalism, translation, animation and education. » "

GILBERT JOLLIET par lui même. GILBERT JOLLIET by itself. 
extracts of text ICAR'XXI