Stirring the Ice at a Café Terrace — Acrylic on Linen Canvas by Arnaud Quercy
Acrylic on Linen Canvas, 114.0×146.0×3.0cm
Arnaud Quercy, 2026 — France
Technical Specifications
- Medium: Acrylic on Linen Canvas
- Dimensions: 114.0×146.0×3.0cm
- Weight: 2.0 kg
- Created: 2026, France
- Certificate: 20260829-0147
- SKU: Arnaud Quercy Creations / AQC1093 / 2026
- ✓ Original artwork, hand-painted by Arnaud Quercy
- ✓ Certificate of authenticity included
- ✓ Complimentary delivery within France and the EU
Arnaud Quercy is a Parisian artist working across painting, music, and sculpture. His practice is grounded in Ideamorphism — the principle that a work of art does not carry meaning, but triggers it. Each piece is engineered to diffract differently through each person who encounters it.
He creates and exhibits at Art Quam Anima, his gallery-atelier at 28 rue du Dragon, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris.
About This Artwork
What happens when twelve seconds of a café terrace — ice cubes stirred in a glass, one afternoon — are asked to hold a chord?
A rule fixed in advance answers: B♭ major seventh over A, in two tight clusters. A second rule, equally fixed, assigns each pitch its colour. The canvas executes both to the end.
Nothing goes from the sound to the painting. Two domains that nothing brings together are bound by a rule that was posed, and what appears on the canvas is what that rule produces. What remains is the gap between the rule and its execution: it belongs to the work.
Where this work lives
Provenance
- Origin: Arnaud Quercy, Paris, France, 2026
- Series: Field Harmonies
- Collection: Paris Sounds
Exhibitions 1
- Mémoire Urbaine et Collective (2026-08-28 → 2026-09-08, Orangerie du Sénat, Paris)
Other works in this series 2
Delivery & Handling
Each work is carefully packaged by the artist and shipped fully insured. Complimentary delivery within France and the European Union. Worldwide shipping available upon request.
Delivery times:
- France: 2-3 business days
- EU: 3-5 business days
- USA/Canada: 5-7 business days
- Rest of world: 7-14 business days
Tracking provided for all shipments.
Shipping costs outside France and EU are communicated upon enquiry.
