Blown Glass Sculpture By Alain And Marisa Bégou

Sculpture in blown glass and pigments, signed Bégou and numbered 4 C 16. Alain Bégou Born in 1945 in Drôme Marisa Bégou Born in 1948 in Italy Alain and Marisa Bégou have lived together for more than thirty-five years and are united by a common passion : hot glass work. A complicity that has become almost fusional has allowed them to form a real team. This is how they invented a method of creation adapted to their contradictory and complementary personalities. In 1967, Alain Bégou discovered the practice of blown glass while maintaining the ovens at the Biot glassworks (Alpes Maritimes). A few years later, he learned the trade of blower at the utility and decorative glassworks of Allex (Drôme). In 1979, the Bégou couple opened their own workshop in Villetelle (Hérault) and Marisa spontaneously joined her husband's creations. Perfected by tireless research, the work of Alain and Marisa quickly stands out. In 1987, the blue-red-black vase, a small flat and opaque piece with airy colors, led the Bégou art towards greater pictoriality. It was only in 1994 that the Bégou found their definitive mode of creation. They then specialize in the use of glass powders that Marisa tames to invent sumptuous compositions. Created in the secrecy of their collusion, their works combine the perfect mastery of the material and the sensitivity of a creative imagination where nature is secretly reflected. Marisa is the decorator, Alain the creator of the form and each of their pieces exalts this subtle marriage. To the rhythm of this perfectly measured four hands, the creation of one work calls for another. Their pieces are exclusively made according to the rules of blown glass and it is through this restrictive technique, too often excluded from the field of creation, that Alain and Marisa Bégou have imagined a free and personal expression. In this harmonious and lyrical work, everyone will find something to dream about...