Artist : Didier Sancey
with Alice Sancey
2007 - 2011
Stained glass windows for the church Notre-Dame du Rosaire in Les Lilas.
Project winner 2007, realized in 2011.
Client: City of Lilas and Diocese of Lilas.
Architects: ENIA architects, Matthieu Chazelle, Simon Pallubicki, Brice Piechaczyk, and Mauro Galentino.
Realization: Ateliers Loire.
Catalog of the exhibition at the Centre international du Vitrail in 2014 - 2015, click here
In this contemporary church the zenithal light is remarkable, the stained glass windows bring color and a vibration of light.
The stained glass windows mark a path in the church through three places. They are adapted to each space and its light, as well as to the symbolism and iconography.
Under the southern glass roof, four large colored glasses are suspended, the Mysteries, abstract surfaces, supports of symbolism and color, and predella inspired by images belonging to history, the paintings of Fra Angelico.
The stained glass windows of the south wall are made of two superimposed glasses: the first one is thermoformed and colored, the second one is made of antique glasses with luminous colors that are projected on the first glass. This device creates luminous and colored variations according to the hours of the day and the seasons. These colors and lights echo the Mysteries in a progression towards the Space of Glory.
Translucent, they mask the building located on the other side of the street.
The path of the sun also determined the colored intensities of these stained glass windows.
The stained glass window of the Espace de Gloire is not visible from the nave, but it projects luminous and immaterial colors on the wall.
This device gives colors that diffuse on the wall near the vertical glass and by their addition form a white light that evokes the Space of Glory. This approach comes from my research on colored shadows started in 1998.
What defines the light of a stained glass window is its transparency and especially its color, taking into account this paradox: a colored glass is perceived as luminous while this glass has absorbed part of the natural light (subtractive synthesis).
These contemporary stained glass windows, through their colors and their space settings, bring a unity that reinforces that of the architecture and the light of this remarkable church.
Didier Sancey
LES LILAS - the south wall and the predelles. - - |
LES LILAS, the great northern glass - - |
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