Patrice Hubert is a self-taught sculptor, inventor and creator of the unique performance works entitled, "Kinetic Mecanik" Hubert's work fit into the Gothic Revival of the late 19th Century and New Age movement of the 1970's. Inspired by HR Giger and Hieronymus Bosch feed his imagination with disturbing and often delirious images, he uses the inventiveness from da Vinci to Jack Kirby to create metal sculptures that come to life.
Hubert's allegorical sculptures, monumental in size, evoke the curiosity of machines and the organic forms of nature heavily weighted within the "Steampunk" movement where present day technology is still being run by steam. Fantastical yet fictional, Hubert's sculptures melds the cold and often mechanical side of man and within the same, creates life like creatures that evoke spiders and insects. The Work, which is rebellious, yet philosophically beautiful, the work stands to presume a time of the past and future yet each sculpture is kinetic in nature and a fully functional moving sculpture, ensuring that the motors are hidden and the lights emerge from within the pieces bringing life to his late 19th century inspirations.
Not unlike a race car or roller coaster, Hubert's work begins with an accelerated motion until it reaches its full velocity. The work stands to question our own physical movement beckoning us to question the psychological rebellion each individual incurs when confronted with the new and the desire to remain in the comfort of the past.
EDUCATION
Self-Taught
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Convention Taboo Nantes Sziget Festival, Obudai Island, Hungary Festivel des arts Bourrins, Rouen, France Festival les loustiks de l'acoustik, Rochefort en terre, Brittany, France Galerie Gustave, Paris, France Balaton Sound Festival, Balaton, Hungary Volt Festival, Balaton, Balaton, Hungary Festival toule'monde, St Nolff, France "Son Automne" Festival St Nolff, France "Indixiciplinees", Lorient, France 2007 "Alie nor Lille", Paris, France "Souterrain Porte 4, Nancy" France Festival Nordik Impact, Decor de scene pur Hybrid, France "La Morue Noire" Biennale de sculpture, Begles, France "Astropolis" Festival, Brest, France Dance Valley Festival, Amsterdam, Holland Ground Zero Festival, Bussloo, Netherlands Exposition a Portaferry, Irlande, France Brussels Festival of Fantasy Film, Bruxelles, Belgium Exposition, "Les montres marins", Oceanopolis de Brest, Amsterdam, Holland Festival "des terres nuevas" Bobital, France 2006 Festival court metrange, Rennee, France Festival "Indixiciplinees" Lorient, France Festival "Robodock" Art and Technology, Amsterdam, Holland Exposition arts capella, Elven, France Festival "Hellfest" Clisson, France Exposition, "Les montres marins", Oceanopolis de Brest, Amsterdam, Holland Exposition a la Semana, International de cine fantastico Malaga, Spain Deco Scene, Aiwa Exposition collective a Carnac, France Festival de Fossoy en Champagne, France Exposition permanente a la Galerie, "des arts et des hommes" Vannes, France Festival "des terres nuevas" Bobital, France 2005 Festival Sciences Fiction, "Utopiales", Nantes, France Transmusicales, Rennes, France Festival meliscenes, Auray, France Festival vieilles charrues, Carhaix, France Deco Scene, "X Makeena & Zencool" Deco Scene Festival, Toule monde, St Nolff, France Expo nd dame des fleurs, Languidic, France Exposition dansle jardin du conservatoire de musique, Vannes, France Exposition permanente a la Galerie, "des arts et des hommes" Vannes, France Festival "des terres nuevas" Bobital, France Festival, "Ozon le theatre" Sene, France 2004 Salon Heavent Paris, France Festival citerap, St Brieuc, France 2003 Festival, "Jazz a Vannes" Vannes, France Expo studio mapl, Lorient, France Salon Heavent Paris, France