Stéphane Belzère⎜Stained-glass windows of the Rodez Cathedral.

Winner in 2003 of the competition launched by the Ministry of Culture and the DRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Stéphane Belzère was awarded the public commission for designing the stained-glass windows for the Rodez Cathedral.

Based on specifications that included a particular theme for each chapel and suggestions regarding the composition of the bay and its connection with the painted decoration, Stéphane Belzère's project is based on the idea of ​​the flow of light and life that penetrates all the chapels, introduces a dynamic and a fluidity that symbolize life and its perpetual renewal. The characters and elements are represented suspended in the space of the bays, drowning in an intense light underlined by the choice of warm or cold tones. This strong relationship to transparency and the forms of living refers to his paintings of big jars.

The artist has tried to formulate the image of God and Saints in a more contemporary language, closer and more understandable to people of the 21st century. On the basis of the iconography of the Western Christian tradition, the artist inserts new and more abstract imagery, adopting reproductions of MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), diagrams of the nervous system or blood network to symbolize the divine thought and represent the immaterial. Executed by Ateliers Duchemin, the creation of the stained glass windows was completed in November 2007.