Milo’s world

• MILO DIAS (Sculptures)
• DOMINIQUE DEGOIS (Tapestries)
• Dates: 25-27 November 2022
• Location: Espace Maintenon, 1 ter rue de la Ferté, 28130 Maintenon
• Days and times: Friday, 2:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. / Week-end 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. (free admission)
• Inauguration: Saturday 26 November at 4:00 p.m.

Dominique Degois will expose a retrospective of her work, including her first classic tapestries in Aubusson style up to and including recent innovations in transparency and glass integrated into the weave

Milo Dias will expose recent raku creations (2021/2022) in 2 categories:

• experimentation on a new series of Big Heads entitled «In Quest of Identity», in natural clay and «raku» finish
• older sculptures reworked in «raku» from «The Lovely Little Faces» series

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The five artworks that Milo Dias donated last year to the Museum of Laval are presently the focus of a «Recent Acquisitions» exhibition at the Museum of Naïve and Outsider Art in Laval.

This exhibition will be on display through 13 November 2022..

Find out more in the Laval Museum’s catalogue of recent acquisitions: excerpt in French:

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Training:

After scientific studies and 10 years spent abroad in the framework of Cultural and Technical Cooperation, I do a one-year internship at the National School of Applied Arts in Paris. Then I work as a teacher in the secondary. From 1980, I led a double life as a teacher and a sculptor.

Figurative sculptures:

I start with modeling with a whole series of little heads that oscillate between caricature, psychological research, or social criticism. Daumier’s influence is a starting point. These little heads soon become characters on feet, where the accent continues to be given priority over facial expressions. These characters are soon accompanied by a context, with extravagant machines built from recycled materials. In this whole process, my point of view is deliberately satirical, that’s why, I quickly join the group of Critical Figuration Art.

Outsider sculptures:

This series of machines made in 1996 marks a turning point in my approach, by the introduction of chance and extravagance in my work. I then move away from the modeling to let myself be carried away by the imagination that results from assembling wood with other salvaged materials. Then follow several series of funny birds, animals in human form, devilish dancers, or other hybrid characters dressed as for a fashion show … From figurative, the sculptures then switch to what we call Outsider Art.

Guideline:

If there is a common thread between all these sculptures, whether figurative or singular, it is the human being, with these tics and his grimaces, and his deep dismay in the face of a destiny that walks between the tragic and the comic. The glance which is carried on this humanity oscillates between the humor and the sarcasm, with a retreat which wants to be criticized in the face of so much stupidity or pretension.