Size : About 175 x 90 cm (5,7 X 2,9 ft) each.

Le Temps des Gares
"Le Temps des gares" (the train station days) was thought and devised by Dorothée Selz, French artist, upon request from the commissar general of the exhibit bearing the same name: "Le Temps des gares" in 1978 at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Roving event. It first took place at the Centre Pompidou, then in Bordeaux and Lyon. It then traveled in Europe : Milan, Brussels, Lausanne, and London. Each time the exhibit had a resounding impact. This display of great scope gathered contemporary art works as well as thousand of historical documents pertaining to train stations and their expansion from 1830 to our days. The work of Dorothée Selz is entirely carved from polychrome sugar icing. It covers roughly a surface of 30 m2 (323 f2). It is made up of 8 pieces which, put together, offer the viewer a vision of electric trains progressing amidst an imaginary landscape. This work of art illustrated one of the themes of the exhibit : The train station, Incentive to imagination. Dorothée Selz gives her playful vision, accentuated by the association of vivid colors and gentle shapes. Each piece represents an imaginary landscape toned in rainbow colors, crossed over by rails and over which minute figures and animals make us dream of another world. Dorothée Selz is born in 1946. She is part of the Eat Art movement of the seventies where main artists such as Daniel Spoerri, Diter Rot, Arman and César, seeked to desanctify art by making it edible. The "Temps des Gares" of Dorothée Selz is, not only a major work of art rendering the experience of a period and of an artistic movement : The Eat Art of the seventies, but is also a reflection on the theme of railroads. As such, she belongs in a Contemporary Art Center or a Science and Technology Museum.