The confrontation between the radically poetic world of Julien Blaine and the radically technological world of Rudy Ricciotti's Pont du Diable (a footbridge spanning the Hérault gorges in the south of France, both a superb aesthetic gesture and a genuine technological feat).
Born 1952 in Kouba (Algeria), French
architect Rudy Ricciotti lives and works in Bandol (France).
A graduate of the École des ponts et chaussées engineering school, Romain Ricciotti (born 1977) has headed the Lamoureux & Ricciotti design office with Guillaume Lamoureux since 2008.
Since the early 1960s, Julien Blaine (born 1942 in Rognac, France, lives and works in Marseille) has been developing a semiotic
poetry, which can be defined as post-
concrete and post-
fluxus. Above all, his poetry is a physical experience: a
performance.
