Rodrigue Glombard: Taking the time to create

Between numbers, colors and music, here is a boiling point out of time in which Rodrigue Glombard, a versatile artist originally from Martinique and now based in Lyon, creates his work. As a scenographer, he is often called upon to travel on business, spending long months away from his studio. Over the years, he has developed a unique approach, what he calls his "daily notebooks", which have become a protocol, then a meditative ritual and a rendezvous with oneself: one day, one drawing. Every day, for over 15 years, the artist filled dozens of notebooks with a daily drawing. This initiative, which runs counter to the habits of our time, has enabled the artist to develop a unique approach to time and creation.

"I've always been attracted to things that have lived," confides Rodrigue Glombard to a Martinique television station. "I realized that all the techniques I'd been using up until then were very time-consuming. The artist explains that, in the different series of works he has created, one key notion recurs again and again. "All these themes that I've pursued more or less head-on have one thing in common, which for me deals with temporality."

This temporality, which has found expression in the form of numbers in the artist's more recent works, has also taken on colors. Gifted with synesthesia, a phenomenon of perception in which two or more senses are associated, Rodrigue associates numbers with colors, for example the number 4 with blue. These colors are present in some of his works.

At Rodrigue Glombard, we take the time to do things. Time that is transformed into works that question our relationship with time.

See the artist's work at the art gallery of the Boutique Hôtel Entraigues in Uzès until Sunday March 30, 2025.

Text: Olivia GOLOVKO