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28/3/2008

Within Thierry Marx's Sphere...

Le Laboratoire, Paris

Imagined and founded by the scientist and Franco-American writer David Edwards, Le Laboratoire is a cultural space dedicated to art and design experimentation inspired by an encounter and collaboration with a leading international scientist.

In fusing artistic and scientific visions, the creative process of artscience redefines itself outside traditional boundaries, no longer belonging solely within one discipline or another. This interdisciplinary approach becomes a catalyst for innovation that Le Laboratoire seeks to cultivate through its annual experiments.

In this, the fourth of Le Laboratoire’s exhibitions since its opening in October 2007, we present the product of a partnership between Michelin-starred chef Thierry Marx and physicist Jérôme Bibette, an innovative fusion of culinary art and colloidal* science.

* Substances in liquid or gel form which contain, in suspension, particles small enough for the mixture to
be homogeneous.

Live the Experiment!

To enter “Thierry Marx’s Sphere” is to pass the border of gastronomical mysteries and to experience new pleasures, both culinary and visual. This exhibition aims to reinvent the spirit of the chef’s table in applying Jérôme Bibette’s latest advances in the science of microparticles.

How can one create spheres whose membranes are as thin as a soap bubble – spheres which, when they burst in one’s mouth, reveal the entire and unique flavor of a food or a dish ? How can one deconstruct a product and then reconstruct it in a contemporary form to release the savor of a recipe in one mouthful?

From this collaboration in artscience, Thierry Marx and Jérôme Bibette have given birth to new sensations brought together in the three recipes created for the exhibition. The meals are served in bento boxes (traditional Japanese meal-boxes), redesigned with special consideration for these new recipes by Mathieu Bassée and Christophe Dubois, in the context of a workshop with the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle, led by Laurent Massaloux.

Mathilde de l’Ecotais’ visual environment, between beautiful body movements and secrets of composition, narrates the story of an encounter and of an experiment both artistic and scientific.

The soundtrack is created by Ommm, human beatbox group.

Taste the Future…
At any time, visitors may go to the “Whif Bar” to taste aerosolized chocolate alongside an espresso. Designed by Harvard students in collaboration with David Edwards, le Whif is a prototype of a new design to be developed by Le Laboratoire over the course of 2008.

…and join at the LaboClub.
Come discover the new FoodLab and its menu created by Thierry Marx. Open to LaboClub members, but also to the public ( requires online registration info@labogroup.com ). The LaboClub is asking everyone to come together and collaborate to create the menu, which will be offered at the opening of the FoodLab next September.

Press contacts:
Valérie Abrial valerie.abrial@wanadoo.fr
+33 (0)6 84 37 96 23

Partners of the exhibition:
Bonnet
Nespresso
Paris Première
Raynier Marchetti

Le Laboratoire
4 rue du Bouloi - Paris
Opening days and times: Friday to Monday, From 12am to 7pm
(Le Laboratoire will be close on March 31th)

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