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-'''François Delarozière''' (1963-) is the Artistic Director of [[La Machine (production company)|La Machine]], a [[France|French]] company which is a collaboration between artists, designers, fabricators and technicians and which specialises in producing giant performing machines, often creatures. He has collaborated with [[French]] and international companies in productions ranging from traditional theatre to experimental street art.
-==Life and work==
-Delarozière was born in 1963 in [[Marseille]] and studied there at the [[Ecole des Beaux Arts]]. He has worked in theatrical-based productions for over 20 years, first designing theatre sets and interiors.  In 1987 he met Jean-Luc Courcoult, the artistic director of the French street theatre company [[Royal de Luxe]] and over a period of years, from 1991–2008, [[Delarozière, Courcoult]] and their engineers designed and created a host of huge performing creatures, which toured various European cities.  These included giraffes, rhinos, a giant [[Gulliver]], and the [[The Sultan's Elephant]].
-In 2008 Delarozière severed his 21-year collaboration with [[Royal de Luxe]] to focus on his own company, [[La Machine]]. [[La Princesse]], the giant mechanical spider that visited Liverpool in September of that year, is the first in a series of six planned creatures that will debut around the world.<ref name=DT>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/08/30/sm_delaroziere130.xml&page=1|title= François Delarozière - Mechanical mystery|publisher=The Times|accessdate=2008-09-12}}</ref>
-All his pieces start with hand-drawn blueprints, described as "think [[Jules Verne]] via [[Leonardo da Vinci|Leonardo]] and [[Heath Robinson]]", and his trademark materials are unpainted wood and metal, with the workings exposed.<ref name=Observer>{{cite web|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/07/art|title= How Liverpool fell for a giant creepy-crawly|publisher=The Observer|accessdate=2008-09-07}}</ref>
-He described his influences as
-{{cquote|Leonardo da Vinci, Jules Verne, [[Gustave Eiffel]], [[Antonio Gaudi]], [[surrealism]], [[dadaism]] but also everyday architecture, bridges, shipyards, railway bridges or my training in fine art. My father was a cabinet-maker, but he also built houses; that's how I came to brickwork, to plumbing, welding and mechanics. But I think what inspires me most is a study of nature; before I invent, I observe life.<ref name=LM>{{cite web|url=http://www.lamachine.co.uk/index.php/la_machine/|title= La Machine|publisher=La Machine|accessdate=2008-09-12}}</ref>}}
-Delarozière has been described as an "engineering genius",<ref name=L08>{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpool08.com/streets/LaMachine/index.asp|title= La Machine|publisher= Liverpool European Capital of Culture|accessdate=2008-09-09}}</ref><ref name=Arti2>{{cite web|url=http://www.artichoke.uk.com/liverpool2008.htm|title= Liverpool 2008|publisher=Artichoke|accessdate=2008-09-12}}</ref><ref name=PHF>{{cite web|url=http://www.phf.org.uk/page.asp?id=188|title= Paul Hamlyn Foundation Artichoke Trust L'araignée by La Machine £50,000|publisher=Paul Hamlyn Foundation|accessdate=2008-09-08}}</ref> and Radio France said of him
-{{cquote|He creates machines, machines which are both beautiful and crazy, giant animals, strange contraptions which play music, boats which sail across the land, birds from where you can have a drink in a daydream, a world which is both real and dreamlike and which invades cities for beautiful, moving and crazy celebrations.<ref>Radio France, 29/06/2005</ref>}}
-==References==
-{{Reflist}}
-==External links==
-*[http://www.lamachine.co.uk/index.php/la_machine/ La Machine page about the company and Delarozière]
-*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/08/30/sm_delaroziere130.xml&page=1 Interview in the Daily Telegraph with Delarozière (3 pages)]
-*[http://www.amorosart.com/artwork-delaroziere-spider_mecanique_savante_liverpool_la_machine-2476-en.html Delarozière's design for La Princesse]
-*[http://www.amorosart.com/prints-delaroziere-1380-1-en.html Delarozière's designs for various productions]
-[[Category:French designers]]
-[[Category:French engineers]]