Fululupulu, Gililirili & Co

2024

Fululupulu, Gilililiri, Dorooosooo,

Gnamayap, Keuuuleuuule &

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COLLÈGE DES PARCS

Winners of the public art competition: Christian Gonzenbach & Vincent Kohler

To build the new gymnasium, the diggers shift cubic metre after cubic metre of earth. But this earth is also a habitat, home to hidden, forgotten creatures. Disturbed by the building site, they stir and suddenly surface: a glimpse of scales, the tip of a tail, teeth, dorsal ridges… But what lies beneath?

The project brings together six underground “beasts”, of which only the emerging part is visible — perhaps the children will invent the rest. In all, some twenty sculptural elements dot the schoolyard, from the smallest (30 cm) to the largest (3 metres), in six materials: ceramic, bronze, aluminium, glass, wood, concrete. You can jump on a shell, drink from a tentacle, hide behind a scale, slip under a giant hair. A project at once visual, playful, tactile and poetic, stirring the imagination by suggesting an invisible world beneath our feet.

True to our approach, we make as many of the pieces as we can ourselves, with the help of young artists: producing locally, passing on know-how, and training them by involving them in real projects. Sculptors both, we master ceramic, concrete, wood, cast aluminium, bronze and pipework. And so every piece, however different, will have passed through our hands.

A book of games was published for the occasion.