This talented sculptor traced his lifelong fascination with surfaces—particularly ruled surfaces—to a visit to the Palais de la découverte. His sculptures, populated by seemingly paradoxical forms, play with light and pique the viewer's curiosity. Philippe Charbonneau was fascinated by optics: with their multiple symmetries, his works are designed to be viewed from different angles and under varied lighting. His creations were driven by reflections, shadows, iridescence, color, and the interplay between sunlight and his sculptures.
One of his final sculptures, shaped like a cylinder twisted into a Möbius strip (see our photos), was a technical tour de force that perfectly embodied his approach. He delighted in watching the sun's rays flood the space within the work, penetrate the Plexiglas surface, and play across the material.

A sculpture the artist was particularly proud of.

Reference:
Mathematics and visual arts. Tangente Library 23, 2019