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pièges plastiques

English translation: sculptural / three-dimensional / architectonic snares

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French term or phrase:pièges plastiques
English translation:sculptural / three-dimensional / architectonic snares
Entered by: Jürgen Lakhal De Muynck

11:42 Mar 3, 2012
French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts)
French term or phrase: pièges plastiques
Et le leurre opère … Extraits d’un faux oubli, ses protagonistes reviennent un peu triomphants, insistants et étranges, comme reprogrammés par les multiples manipulations du plasticien.
Car il s’agit bien d’un enchaînement rigoureux de formes, de trajectoires, de matières, d’ombres et de lumières, qui attestent d’un regard singulier et notamment d’une attirance toute particulière pour les architectures, pour les milieux urbains propices aux longs travellings de lignes fuyantes, à l’enchevêtrement inextricable de charpentes, voûtes basculantes … et, comme un leitmotiv, le cube perspectif du Quattrocento, sous l’apparence de la scène d’intérieur devenue scène de théâtre.(2)
Car il s’agit bien de notre mémoire familière, panoramique, dilatée dans l’instant, à son tour enchaînée dans les PIÈGES PLASTIQUES, les anecdotes fantasmées, les actualités en noir et blanc d’un monde parallèle, dans lequel se côtoient humour et mystère, amour et culture protéiforme.
Mais cet incessant tangage de la raison - orchestré par la savante architecture du plasticien puisant dans les pixels ses artéfacts symboliques - en devient d’autant plus redoutable : le rêve est kaléidoscopique, le fugace cauchemar peut devenir visqueux et brutal.
thanks, merci bien^^
Jürgen Lakhal De Muynck
Spain
Local time: 06:30
sculptural / three-dimensional / architectonic snares
Explanation:
Snares with which form presents us

One or two suggestions.
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Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:30
Grading comment
thank you very much
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Summary of answers provided
3 +1sculptural / three-dimensional / architectonic snares
Helen Shiner
4artistic snares/traps/stereotypes/clichés
Rasha Ali Hassan
4artistic shortcuts
Paul Hirsh
Summary of reference entries provided
http://www.gerard-bertrand.net/article_proust_journet.htm
kashew

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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
sculptural / three-dimensional / architectonic snares


Explanation:
Snares with which form presents us

One or two suggestions.

Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:30
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 96
Grading comment
thank you very much

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  cc in nyc: I like "snares"
1 hr
  -> Thanks, cc in nyc
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23 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
artistic snares/traps/stereotypes/clichés


Explanation:
we are ensnared by certain artistic clichés and by fantasies and mysteries...

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Note added at 23 hrs (2012-03-04 11:14:52 GMT)
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we are limited by

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Note added at 23 hrs (2012-03-04 11:22:35 GMT)
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this constant manipulation of the mind (and senses) ..... can become brutal

Rasha Ali Hassan
Local time: 05:30
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in ArabicArabic
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2 days 8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
artistic shortcuts


Explanation:
artistic shortcuts，visual pitfalls

Paul Hirsh
France
Local time: 06:30
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12
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Reference comments


5 hrs
Reference: http://www.gerard-bertrand.net/article_proust_journet.htm

Reference information:
Quite a lot already translated into English.

kashew
France
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 11
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