Crescendo III

About Crescendo III

This outdoor contemporary geometric metal sculpture is made of red cubes.

Claude Millette’s expressive architectural sculptures reflect his fascination with opposing ideas of movement and stasis, of balance and imbalance. He has often used a dancer’s elegant poses and sensual choreography as a model for his own artwork. To create Crescendo III, one of a series of minimalist sculptures Millette forged seven steel cubes that resemble tumbling dice in form. The cubes are stacked one on top of the other but at angles that appear physically impossible as they defy both logic and gravity.
Powder coated in a shiny red, the intentional vibrant palette serves to accentuate the dynamic form. As Millette welds, cuts, bolts and assembles the individual metal components of his sculptures he often thinks about how its shape can evoke emotion. And he wants the viewer to make that intimate connection to his sublime work.

“In my humble opinion, art only has meaning when it lives in other’s perceptions or sensibility.” Claude Millette

Claude Millette was born in Saint-Hyacinthe Quebec. He studied at the École de sculpture de Saint-Jean-Port-Joli and apprenticed with revered sculptors Robert Poulin and Jordi Bonet. Sculptor Claude Millette distinctive contemporary sculptures grace many public spaces in Canada. Millette was one of 14 artists invited to create work in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours in Quebec. Millette's works have been commissioned for many public art projects and have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the U.S., Europe, and Mexico.