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Rakesh Patel’s The Architectural Maze-2 is installed at Jardin de Sculptures du Grand Launay in Semblançay, France, marking an important international milestone in his practice.
Drawing on yantras, meditative diagrams and fragments of temple architecture, the sculpture gives sacred geometry a material and spatial presence. Circles, arcs and intersecting planes in corten steel create a structure whose openings are as carefully considered as its solid forms.
At Grand Launay, the landscape becomes part of the sculpture’s spatial order. Its apertures frame fragments of vegetation, while shifting light redraws the boundaries between solid plane and open space. As one moves around the work, these relationships continually change. The corten steel surface continues to change through exposure to the elements, registering time through shifts in colour and texture.
For us, this placement carries the significance of years spent supporting Rakesh’s practice. Harssh’s dialogue with Jean-Marc Decrop, the collector and contemporary art expert behind the sculpture garden at Grand Launay, helped bring this commitment into a new setting. Decrop is known for his early engagement with Chinese contemporary art and his role in bringing Asian artists to international attention.
Seeing Rakesh’s sculpture at Grand Launay is a moment of particular pride, as an enquiry we have followed closely enters a wider conversation.
Rakesh Patel
The Architectural Maze-2, 2026
Corten steel
Jardin de Sculptures du Grand Launay, Semblançay, France
Drawing on yantras, meditative diagrams and fragments of temple architecture, the sculpture gives sacred geometry a material and spatial presence. Circles, arcs and intersecting planes in corten steel create a structure whose openings are as carefully considered as its solid forms.
At Grand Launay, the landscape becomes part of the sculpture’s spatial order. Its apertures frame fragments of vegetation, while shifting light redraws the boundaries between solid plane and open space. As one moves around the work, these relationships continually change. The corten steel surface continues to change through exposure to the elements, registering time through shifts in colour and texture.
For us, this placement carries the significance of years spent supporting Rakesh’s practice. Harssh’s dialogue with Jean-Marc Decrop, the collector and contemporary art expert behind the sculpture garden at Grand Launay, helped bring this commitment into a new setting. Decrop is known for his early engagement with Chinese contemporary art and his role in bringing Asian artists to international attention.
Seeing Rakesh’s sculpture at Grand Launay is a moment of particular pride, as an enquiry we have followed closely enters a wider conversation.
Rakesh Patel
The Architectural Maze-2, 2026
Corten steel
Jardin de Sculptures du Grand Launay, Semblançay, France
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