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Thierry Vidé was a French sculptor working with perforated metal born February 19, 1938 in Nantes, France and dead on October 1, 2021 à L'Île-d'Yeu, est un sculpteur français travaillant le métal perforé.

Already fascinated with transparency, space, and matter as a child, Thierry Vidé joins the Beaux-Arts de Nantes in 1958, and then in 1963, the Beaux-Arts de Paris. In 1967, he starts his own company: " Atelier Thierry Vidé " through which he works on his artworks.

Life
Beginning in the 1970's, Thierry Vidé starts working in the theater, movie, and advertisement industry. During this period, he learns to use new materials and experiment with new sculpture shapes.

In 1986, he invents and coins the concept of 'holotramy': a marriage of emptiness and fullness possible through to the overlapping of perforated stainless steels frames ('trames' in French, hence 'holotramy' with 'hologram'). This results in an interference pattern known as moiré pattern giving the impression of a light volume appearing as an illusion when looking at the sculptures.

He is selected as winner, with a temporary holotramic composition " Couleur Espace " spanning 100 meters in length and 24 meters in height, for the Parvis de la Défense contest, in honor of the opening ceremony of the Grande Arche and the bicentennial anniversary of the French Revolution.

He is also known for having won the 1992 contest for a sculpture on the Place d'Italie, in Paris, with an iconic 25 meter-high sculpture visible from the five avenues of the square. This project represented three years of work and collaboration with Japanese architect Kenzō Tange.

Located in Adano, within the town of Oyama, Japan, Envol is the abstract representation of a bird taking off ('envol' in French). This sculpture was commissioned by the city in XXXX.

C’est avec son fils aîné Jean-Sébastien qu’il aboutit et développe ses sculptures, la plupart du temps monumentales. Jean-Sébastien Vidé continue aujourd’hui le développement avec son frère Félicien Vidé d’une gamme de luminaires contemporains dans la continuité de la sculpture sous le nom de Thierry Vidé Design.

Holotramy
Holotramy is the result of research on weightlessness. He multiplies emptiness and fullness by overlapping perforated stainless steel frames, tinted or not, to create a light and see-through volume in space. He patents his innovation in 1986 with his son Jean-Sébastien Vidé.