Permanent Collection – Resonnance in form

Resonances in Form: The Permanent Collection gathers two currents that define Arnaud Quercy’s practice—the urge to see sound and the desire to hold story. Six paintings from Synesthetic Explorations stand opposite six sculptural narratives, creating an endless loop between vibration and volume. The tour opens in music. C Major – Variation 1 spreads vermilion and saffron across linen, translating Rachmaninoff’s luminous prelude into a sunrise of interval and echo. A♭ Major – Variation 6 lets cobalt and carmine drift in gentle arcs that mirror Jerome Kern’s jazz standard All the Things You Are. Heat gathers in D Minor – Variation 1, where orange-violet embers replay Bill Evans’s modal hush at the start of So What. F Minor – Variation 8 layers maroon, ultramarine, and royal purple, following Chopin’s concerto into reflective depth, while F♯ Minor – Variation 4 balances olive greens and blue-greens to echo the proud, conflicted cadence of Chopin’s Polonaise, Op. 44. The chromatic cycle closes with A♭ Minor – Variation 4, whose blue, yellow-green, and indigo planes evoke Stravinsky’s Firebird, a dance between darkness and rebirth. Across the virtual aisle, hue turns to contour. Dragon crouches in patinated ceramic—an ember of myth made solid—while Grimoire stacks cube, prism, and disc in rhodium glaze, a book made spell before page. Cubist domesticity follows: A Cat distils feline poise into prowling planes, and “Gus,” the Shih Tzu transforms a workshop companion into a jaunty tower of facets. Serenity returns in Quietness, a tapering ceramic column on steel that seems to seal silence inside its smooth skin, before the sky re-opens in La Mouette de Montparnasse, a stainless-steel seabird arcing over the city, proof that nature still circles above the concrete tide. Installed without chronology, these twelve works knot intangible harmony to tangible form. Scroll slowly and the C-major canvas vibrates against the seagull’s wing; Dragon’s shadow cools Rachmaninoff’s reds; Grimoire’s mirror flashes colors borrowed from the Firebird’s tail. Light, season, and memory will remix the dialogue each visit, but the premise endures: music can find color, legend can find weight, and true resonance lives where disciplines blur.