The simplest act of building is surely to place two stones one on top of the other.
the other, or, for the seaside surveyor, to build with sand.
It is a return to this pure joy and these instinctive gestures of a builder
ephemeral that Tina Bloch, exhibition curator, invited 34 architects or
duo of European architects. On the beaches of Deauville and Benerville,
amazing monuments have risen between sky and sea, mandalas and
labyrinths as far as the eye can see have had a fleeting but intense existence.
both land art and sand painting, the proposals, carefully developed or
improvised according to the inspiration of the moment, are of astonishing diversity.
Digging, building, sculpting, molding, scarifying, raking, drawing, modeling… the
sand lends itself to all poetic inventions. Between two tides, the
Photographer Michel Denancé captured their ephemeral beauty, mixing the
eye-level perspectives and aerial views for a result of great
aesthetic force.
