palaces of the soul
on the pure precipice
of sunlight

windows
throughout the body
signal fresh worlds….

A PARCOURS THROUGH AN
ARTIST”S BOOK
WHERE THE PAGES BECOME
POROUS WALLS
OF A DREAM PALACE
A TRI-DIMENSIONAL SPACE
WHERE ANU’S POEMS ARE
ACTUAL STRUCTURES OF SPACEWORDS AS INTEREDIARIES BETWEEN
THE SPECATOR AND PURE LGHT
JOURNEY INTO MAGIC
WHERE LIGHT TAKES OVER VISUALSTHE VISUALS: A TRAMPOLINE
FOR LIGHT AND SOUND
A PLAY OF TRANSLUCENCE
WHERE THINGS ARE NOT SEEN
ONE AFTER ANOTHER
BUT SIMULTANEOUSLY
A VIBRATORY FIELD WHICH
ENVISEGES MANY LEVELS AT ONCE LIGHT, SOUND AND FORM AS
PUNCTUATIONS FOR THE
UNFOLDING OF TIME STRUCTURESLIGHT MATTER: A PLAYGROUND
FOR THE SOUL
WHICH SEES MATTER
AS THE MANY DISGUISES 
OF ONE LIGHT
WHERE EVERYTHING
BECOMES ‘LIGHT’
OF NO IMPORTANCE
WHERE ONE BECOMES FREE
OF APPEARANCES
GENTLY STEPPING OUT OF
MAYA’S MESH
TO RE-DISCOVER THE PULSATING
MIRACLE
OF MAN’S SUBSTANCE

Pierre Legrand






PIERRE LEGRAND’S
LIGHT MATTER WORLD



       Notes on the way…

Recently I saw Pierre’s latest work in his house: It was difficult to say where the work starts or ends, where the house and the garden starts or ends, or whether the sun is part of the work or whether time is an active player in the game. There were no boundaries.
Manoj Pavithran

The chromatic scale marks the history of painting just like how the rudimentary combinations of alphabets have given birth to literatures.

With a wealth of personal experience behind him, Pierre Legrand has given himself a pictorial alphabet. Not like the one already tried by a Herbin or a Kandinsky, but by compelling himself to a declination of fixed forms on which colour will surface… and from materials more and more complex in their simplicity: pieces of string, glue, earth, paper, plastic that compose a script bordering on geography.
Gilles Castro
Alliance Française / Earth Works Expo

It is true that at first glance the work of Pierre Legrand escapes the dichotomy which traditionally separates painting from sculpture, yet his pieces are easily recognisable by a kind of ‘web’, by a certain agencing of substance which he ‘weaves’ between solid and void…

PIERRE ASKED
IF I WOULD WRITE THE TEXT. SINCE LIGHT MATTER WAS INTRINSICALLY RHYTHMIC IT SPOKE IN POETRY.

THE WORD PALACE EMERGED FROM A SIMPLICITY AND FREE ROYALTY CREATED BY THE MODULES - A SPACE FOR THE SOUL.

THEIR STRUCTURAL QUALITY GRADUATED THE WORD PALACE TO ARCHITECTURE, FORMED BY LAYERS OF WRITING MADE WITH PIERRE’S SPECIALLY EVOLVED ALPHABET.

LIGHT GOT INTO THEM FROM EVERYWHERE - INDOORS, OUTDOORS.

LIGHT BECAME AN ESSENTIAL FACTOR - NATURAL, ARTIFICIAL, EVEN INNER LIGHT. BIRDS STARTED GETTING INTO THE POROUS WALLS. BUTTERFLIES FLEW IN AND OUT, PEOPLE WALKED IN BETWEEN THE LAYERS.

AFTER SOME TIME THE POEMS BEGAN APPEARING ON MUSIC SHEETS
                                     ANU

Exhibitions : Solo

1964: Galerie des Jeunes, Paris
1976: Sarala Art Gallery, Madras
1990: Municipal Library, Bremen
1991: Weisse Galerie,
Köln, Germany
1991: Villa Abbo,
Nice, France
1993: Weisse Galerie, Köln, Germany
1993: UNESCO,
Paris
1993: Bharat Nivas,
Auroville , India
1995: Weisse Galerie, Köln, Germany
1995: Arp Foundation, Meudon, France
1995: Bharat Nivas, Auroville, India
1996: Weisse Galerie,
Köln, Germany
1997: Bharat Nivas, Auroville, India
1997: Weisse Galerie, – Köln, Germany
1997: OTTO Galerie,
Paris, France
1997: Alliance Francaise, Pondicherry
1999: Light Matter Inst. Auroville, India
1999 - Alliance Francaise, Bangalore, India
2000 - Light Station, Auroville, India