Nous avons beaucoup dit, beaucoup lu et entendu sur les sons de Michel Moglia : Des chants de baleines et de loups aux volcans en éruption, des vrombissements de moteurs à réaction aux machineries d'usines à plein régime, etc ...chacun s'approprie le besoin de décrire, de partager une émotion inédite . Par l'interprétation rationnelle chacun cherche en l'autre un écho rassembleur qui viendrait désamorcer une sorte de branle-bas intérieur. Car le gardien du feu déconcerte, fouille là où on ne va pas, où l'on ne va plus : aux tréfonds de l'âme humaine aussi bien qu'animale , là où subsistent assurément la mémoire tellurique des origines et sans doute, aussi, les secrets du feu. Symbole de chaos et de vie, que ce soit à travers les sons, le travail des terres, des sculptures ou des peintures, le feu est continuellement au cœur de l'oeuvre chez Moglia.
The harnessing of fire has been proved as starting around 400,000 years ago. However, over the centuries its domestic use has obviously produced a transformation of its fascinating power. Nonetheless, certain artists are inexorably drawn to this primeval element. Michel Moglia is one of them and, without doubt, one of the most creative and invested . Since 1989 his “organ of fire” has travelled the world. The transformation of the flames and the heat into sonorous, vibrant energy opens up a multitude of experimental avenues that, today, materially constitute an arsenal of stainless steel, glass, tubes and various plates. We have already talked, heard and read about the sounds produced by Michel Moglia: from the songs of whales and wolves to erupting volcanoes, throbbing motors, jet engines and full-throttled factory machinery etc., each one needing to describe and share an original emotion. Through rational interpretation we seek a unifying echo in one another that will defuse a sort of inner fear. The keeper of the fire is disconcerting, forever searching where one does not dare to go, where one no longer wishes to go, seeking in the deepest recesses, not only of the animal but also of the human soul, the earthly memory of the origins and secrets of fire. Be it as a symbol of chaos and of life, be it through sound, terrestrial movement, sculptures or paintings, fire is constantly at the heart of Moglia’s work.
