"My work resides not only in a search for beauty, but above all in the commitment of a work to be created and defended."- André Fournelle, quotation taken from the text by C. Gosselin (Gosselin, C. (1975). André Fournelle: Reinventing. Life of the Arts, 20(79), 30–31.)

Fournelle's approach to matter is direct. He does not precisely draw the parts to be executed nor does he make models for the parts to be cast. When he created the Experimental Foundry with Marc Boisvert, in 1968, he defined its goals as follows: "The Experimental and Collective Foundry, in its basic principle, tends to avoid the idea of ??reproduction; advocates the abolition of the traditional system of the model.The work of the founder in the case of a model (to be reproduced as faithfully as possible) intervenes only to change the material of the work, by adding nothing to it, otherwise its durability.

Gosselin, C. (1975). André Fournelle: reinventing. Life of the Arts, 20(79), 30–31.