MINERAL AWAKENING
In 1972, on vacation, GRATALOUP went to the surroundings of Nice, to the Domaine de l'Étoile where he met the one he called "Tante Marthe". She will make him discover theosophy and theosophists with spiritual encounters like that of Jean Klein, disciple of Krishnamurti, Blavatsky and many others like Alexandra David Neel.
He then became a member of the Theosophical Society. Theosophy emphasizes the fact that matter and spirit communicate, while proceeding, according to this doctrine, of a circulation of energies in a cosmic communion of the mineral, the vegetable, the animal and human universe.
It is from this theosophical research that he will realize the first series "Awakenings of the Mineral" which will be followed by the series "Awakenings of the Vegetable".
"Starting from the theosophical principle where all the forces of nature tend towards the light, I wanted, as Hölderlin said, "to put back the principle of the effort of matter towards the light and vice versa". As an indefinite reflection, it had no end. It starts symbolically from the dark to the clear."
GRATALOUP LIGHT COLOR
The “MINERAL AWAKENING” series includes 23 works.
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MATRICIA OBSCURA III - FROTTAGE ON PAPER, MOUNTED ON WOOD
2000
MATRICIA OBSCURA II - MATRIX
1998
LARGE MINERAL AWAKENING
1975–1980
MINERAL AWAKENING MATRICIA
1972–1990
BIG STORM - FROTTAGE ON PAPER, MOUNTED ON WOOD
1972–2020
STORMY WIND - FROTTAGE ON PAPER, MOUNTED ON WOOD
1972–2020
TORRENTIAL RAIN WITH FLASH OF HEAT - FROTTAGE ON PAPER, MOUNTED ON WOOD
1972–2020
LIGHTNING - FROTTAGE ON PAPER, MOUNTED ON WOOD
1972–2020
MINERAL AWAKENING WITH LADDER
1990
— Private collection —
ICARE'S FALL IN FRONT OF THE MINERAL AWAKENING
1987
— Private collection —
FROTTAGE – AWAKENING OF THE MINERAL
1982
— Private collection —
LARGE MINERAL AWAKENING - FROTTAGE
1977
— Private collection —
LARGE MINERAL AWAKENING
1975
— Private collection —
THE OLD DAYS
1975–1989
— Private collection —
LARGE MINERAL AWAKENING
1972
— Private collection —
LARGE MINERAL AWAKENING
1972
— Private collection —
LARGE MINERAL AWAKENING
1972
— Private collection —
ARTWORK MADE OF "MINERAL AWAKENING" FOR THE EXHIBITION "CONSTRUCTION SITE" ORGANIZED BY DANIEL BOULOGNE IN APRIL 1992
1972–1992
— Private collection —
THE MINE
1972–1992
— Private collection —
MINERAL AWAKENING WITH SCRIPTURES
1972
— Private collection —
INITIAL DRAWING OF THE SERIES
1972
— Private collection —
SMALL MINERAL AWAKENING
1972
— Private collection —
PYRAMIDES WITH MINERAL AWAKENING
1972
— Private collection —