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The Assemblages by Bernard Pagès between deconstruction and reconstruction Starting from a given protocol : link two wooden rods, Bernard Pagès elaborates the series of Assemblages between 1972 and 1978. It is for him the opportunity to introduce gesture in sculpture by working both on w'ood and on binding means. First based on the idea of enumerating all the possibilities of linkage, the series evolved in the course of the years 1974-1975 from the logic of dwindling to the logic of growth. Pagès then seems to rebuild, according to a vocabulary of his own, a forceful sculpture. However, in spite of their seeming more and more built, the Assemblage s already include some deconstruction. Indeed, the sculptor goes beyond his self-made rules by increasing to their utmost the bindage means and by adding colour. Thus Pagès sets up a reflection based on the dialectics of deconstruction and reconstruction.