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Le Jour – A New Sculptural Work by Simon Buret

for Rinck

Following the Paris unveiling of La Nuit, Rinck is proud to introduce Le Jour, a new sculptural piece by the French artist Simon Buret, during the upcoming edition of What’s New, What’s Next at the New York Design Center.

Conceived as the luminous echo of La Nuit, this second iteration of the monumental winged figure revisits the original form with a distinct presence. In Le Jour, the deep black patina gives way to a polished golden bronze finish, bringing a new energy — radiant, sensual, and open.

While La Nuit drew the eye inward, Le Jour catches the light — a luminous sculpture that reflects the same poetic essence, but from the other side of the day.

Like its predecessor, Le Jour was crafted through a year-long process of sketching, modeling, and casting. The sculpture was developed in close collaboration with Rinck’s artisan workshops and a specialized fine art foundry, as part of the Opus Memoria collection — a creative project built around the fictional legacy of a multidisciplinary artist.

In Buret’s vision, the figure represents “an allegory of Adam and Eve, shaped by the lines of the four elements — water, air, earth, and fire — coming together in a single form: a Nuit de bronze.”

Now transformed into Le Jour, this figure reveals a new facet — brighter, perhaps more resolute — while preserving its poetic roots.

“I have raised up the curves of my island;

Out of the salty water that surrounded it,

I beheld its silhouette, upright;

I waited for the day to come;

I watched the sun set it ablaze with all its rays.

‘Le Jour’ is a bronze of gold and fire,

it is the birth of the sun one can look at straight in the eyes.

‘Le Jour’ is the other side of a same ambition:

To open, like an Albatros, the cage that builds and unbuilds us, and to set dreams free.

‘Le Jour’ is to ‘La Nuit’ its very reflection.”

Simon Buret

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