Petit temple rouge (Little red temple)

Self-taught in the field of glass which she discovered with her husband, Claude Monod, who in 1976 set up a hot glass workshop in the Nice hinterland, Isabelle Monod belongs to the generation of artist-artisans who knew renewing French glass creation from the 1980s. While looking for effects of material, texture and color in the glass, she developed a sculptural approach based on the creation of small blown and hot-modeled volumes sometimes containing internal decorations of bubbles of color, which she stacks in balance to form architectural compositions, like this Petit temple rouge et du bleu created in 1994. Before being offered by a collector from Rouen, who acquired it from the Complément d'objet gallery in 1994, during the artist's exhibition at the Hôtel de Région in Rouen, this sculpture was also presented in two personal exhibitions by Isabelle Monod, organized at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nice, in 1995, and at the Glass Museum of Conches, in 2011.