Vincent Dubourg Blue Weather

Drawing from Constructivism and Brutalism, Dubourg designs objects at the crossroads of architecture, symbolism and everyday life, treating collectible design as a narrative medium. The Paris-born artist’s work emerges from his observation of societies and their invisible architectures – such as power, belief and hierarchy, as well as the upheavals that reshape them. Questioning the system of modernity that seeks to organise the world through reason, Dubourg’s pieces stage remaking and redistribution while proposing alternative ways of inhabiting space.

In Dubourg's new works, bronze is imagined as a material caught between violence and repose. Born from metal poured in molten state – comparable to a volcano, an incandescent flow full of power – the bronze is progressively mastered and cast, retaining the memory of its original turbulence beneath a polished surface. Far from frozen or inert, the material settles like weather clearing: not vanishing but transforming into presence.

This thinking finds its clearest expression in a trio of related works Organic Table, Himself 1 and Himself 4. The white bronze tabletops appear as tranquil lakes fixing the transition between force and stillness. Each surface rests on an arch structured by a labyrinth of Movingui wood, a material that does more than support the construction. The wood is shaped by restraint and worked until stable, becoming a victorious undercurrent, allowing the bronze above to read as a petrified yet tranquil fusion – durable, without losing the idea of motion.

Other works extend Dubourg's engagement with mass, geometry and upheaval. The paired Stonehenge Armchair and Stonehenge Ottoman translate the ancient megalithic monument's post-and-lintel logic into bronze and upholstery, while Between Two Storms and Vibration Core carry the same charged stillness into more abstract, freestanding bronze forms – works that hold tension in suspension rather than resolving it. Veda Alu, cast in aluminium, sets a cooler, more industrial register against the warmth of the bronze and wood pieces, broadening the exhibition's material vocabulary.

Running through these works is a quieter, spiritual register: the colour yellow, present in several bases, evokes an intensity close to inner light, a foot of consciousness on which the mind can stand and rest, calling forth clarity, awakening and intuition. The exhibition's title speaks to this same atmosphere – the calm of a sky that has just released its force. Just as a storm reorganises the air it passes through, Blue Weather marks a moment of settling for Dubourg, in which power becomes meaning, offering a calm space in which to breathe, wait and recognise the passage from motion to rest.

On View

17 September19 December 2026