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Rhinocéros

Sylvie Bourdeau

2024

The sculpture Rhinoceros by Sylvie Bourdeau explores the contrast between the raw and imposing nature of the animal and the softness that raku ceramic confers. Without support, the sculpture rests directly on the surface, accentuating the solidity of the rhinoceros, while providing it with unexpected elegance. The treatment of raku, with its delicate cracks, softens the rigid shape of the animal, giving it a more soothing dimension.

This sculpture fits perfectly into the artist's universe, where it often plays on contrasts, as in Whale duo, combining strength and fluidity. The rhinoceros, despite its nature often perceived as raw and powerful, reveals here a subtle, almost touching sweetness, inviting you to rediscover this animal under a new look. The texture and nuances provided by raku reinforce this duality between strength and fragility.

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Hipster Antinous Deep Green

Léo Caillard

2024

Sculpture en marbre.

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Hipster antinous deep green Léo caillard

Pieuvre tombante

2024

Dans cette version plus imposante de Pieuvre tombante, Sylvie Bourdeau accentue l’impression de mouvement et de fluidité. La pieuvre semble capturée en plein mouvement, ses tentacules enroulés autour du socle et s’étirant avec élégance, comme si l’animal se mouvait lentement dans les profondeurs marines. Le raku, une technique que l’artiste maîtrise parfaitement, met en valeur les craquelures et les variations de couleurs, conférant à la pieuvre une texture vivante et presque organique. Les détails minutieux des tentacules, à la fois souples et puissants, évoquent la capacité de l’animal à s’adapter à son environnement.

Cette œuvre s’inscrit dans la continuité du travail de Sylvie sur les animaux marins, rejoignant notamment Ammonite, une autre sculpture où la mer et ses créatures sont à l’honneur. Ces sculptures marient à merveille l’élégance des formes et la profondeur des textures, révélant toute la beauté mystérieuse du monde marin.

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Featured artists

Barbara Daeffler

From her studio in Brittany, Barbara Daeffler creates unique works that explore the ancestral links between humans and animals. Inspired since childhood by the raw beauty of the wild world, she uses sculpture to question a bygone era when humans lived in harmony with animals.

Her career closely combines art and archaeology: she studied art history, ethnology and archaeology, enriched by years of practice in ceramics and teaching the arts of fire. It is in clay, a primitive and symbolic material, that she draws the essence of her artistic language.

Her animal sculptures, made of stoneware and porcelain, bear the traces of an imaginary past. Fragmented, marked by erosion or colourful tattoos, they evoke a poetic and vibrant paleontology. Through fire, textures, oxides and enamels, the artist gives her creatures a mysterious and timeless presence.

Her ‘Beasts’, sometimes monumental, hybridise worlds, elevating the animal to totem status and the material to memory. The earth becomes skin, stretched to the point of cracking, in a play of contrasts between roughness and finesse, archaism and grace.

A member of Ateliers d'Art de France since 2023, Barbara Daeffler has exhibited regularly in galleries, salons and exhibitions since setting up her studio in 2018.

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Thime

Thime, whose real name is Thierry Ménéchal, is an artist originally from Dordogne and currently based in Bordeaux, describes himself as a curious and creative autodidact. After a career as Sales Director in a large international group, he decided to change course to follow his artistic passion.

His artistic career took a turn in July 2015 when he discovered a new pigment-based technique while on vacation in Saint Martin. Inspired by a painter friend, he immersed himself in abstract art, considering this visual language to be the most seductive. Her artistic approach is based on three main axes: the use of pigments for effects and transparency, the use of oil for materials and reliefs, and the exploration of textured materials or linen sheets to cause movement.

He works with a knife, adopting a constant spontaneity in his gestures and movements. His artistic expression reflects his relationship to time, with rapid and obvious movements on some of his canvases.

Inviting everyone to plunge into their own imagination, THIME offers a unique artistic experience where each painting is the result of snapshots capturing doses of pigments, movements of matter, color choices, moods of the day, emotions, and feelings.