ADOR Experience art gallery

Inspired by César Baldaccini, whom he met at the age of 7, Lagasse turned to sculpture while maintaining his love for graffiti, a form of artistic expression that he practiced on streets and subways. A decisive encounter with Yvaral Vasarely opened up new perspectives for him and encouraged him to merge graffiti with sculpture.

In 2009, he created his iconic work entitled “One Dollar”. This piece is the result of his admiration for the United States and his idea of “making art with $1.” Lagasse has produced this work in numerous colors and with various materials.

In 2016, he pushed the boundaries of his creation by creating a monumental bronze sculpture, a “One Dollar” measuring 2 meters high and weighing 500 kg. It was exhibited during the Paris Art Fair. In 2017, Karl Lagasse designed the trophy for the 43rd edition of the Deauville American Film Festival based on the sea and waves.

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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