For a week, the visual artist created an immersion in the Toulouse Museum, a chimical sculpture that appeared in Europe from Gastnornis Laurenti, this huge bird, which appeared in the Paleozene 60 million years ago, in Europe, which did not know how to fly.
Gasternis Fantasmogoris is the name of the sculpture, which was adopted under the hands of the plastic artist 100taur, aka Nicolas Giraud, in the walls of form Toulouse Natural History MuseumDuring this first school holidays. She reflects Gastornis Laurenti to fly this huge bird, which is unable to fly in Aude, 2018 in a toner career by Yves Laurent. A reconstruction, life size is currently presented in the exposure of the giants.
“The indices of the paleontologist who discovered it”
“I settled here shortly before the occurrence of the constant exhibition to create this living sculpture as if I was in the artist residence,” confirmed 100taur. The latter assumed the challenge of “reproducing a guest sorrel from scientific data. He also relyed on the skeleton found by the paleontologist. Taxidermist preparers with its materials, the position, the size of the animal …”
Gastornis, the bird who didn’t know how to fly
In Europe 60 million years ago in the Paleocene Gastornis – the giant bird – North America and Asia, before it was switched off 42 million years ago. He lived in the south of France 52 million years ago. The climate was then damp tropical and swampy with Savannah landscape. The huge bird of 1.70 meters height had a large and strong beak, limb and a massive pool. He weighed between 50 and 100 kilos and didn’t know how to fly.
What changes between the original and its version is his artistic reinterpretation. So the guest sorrel Fantasmogoris de 100taur is “a pure chimeric, a small monstrous” creature “that is equipped with many eyes in the front wings, on the forehead and chest. . “As far as the feathers are concerned, they are symbolized by various resins” that I have worked as if it were braiding Or bark, in shades of blue that run towards the turquoise to give him a foam side, “she slips out Nicolas Giraud.
He created in the middle of the museum laboratory
This artistic reproduction is not to displeasure the paleontologist Yves Laurent, the scientist who has discovered Gastornis Laurenti. “I think it’s great. It is a very interesting vision. In a scientific version we would not have done it massive,” he said amused.
When he did not work in the museum, 100 Taur occupied part of the museum preparation laboratory to end his sculpture in the middle of the real scientists who were worth their respective professions. A coexistence that enthusiastic. “It was great. Nicolas used many of our techniques in his creation. It was great to be able to work together,” admits Marie-Françoise Carillo, preparation.
For this 100taur project, Martine Lat key, visual artist and loan, a photographer and videoographer who feeds social networks and screens of the museum.
This Saturday, at 4 p.m. 100taur, planned to present his work in the museum’s auditorium. An appointment that should not be missed.
