Monuments - Sculptures - Phrases -
Ombre & Silhouette Nana Substance Rêve d’Euclyde L’attitude Hopefully Elève toi
Pied de Biche Si a Moi Tableau Tableau L'Ecrivain La Promenade du Veau d'Or Création La Justice Subsistance Bouclier II Le Sculpteur
Variation sur le cercle Variation sur le cercle Variation sur le cercle Objet Perdu Autrement Envers et contre tout Le Mathématicien Entre ciel et terre Toujours plus haut Bouclier I Corde Sensible
La vie avant Tout Les Bras Levés Ange Gardien L'Age adulte La foi Exacerbé Le Théatre Les Proposition de l'inconnu Emprise Le Cerf Volant Le Seuil de la corruption
La Nature du Centaure We are the world La Providence Les Racines de vent Passion tord et adore L'ombre age Mémoire d'éléphant L'appetit Le Déchainée

Sculpture, its a great coincidence between soul and thought, matter and reality, it's a repeated discovery of the incredible connivance between shape and truth, between emotion and subjectivity.

Our consciousness evolves as we create the world in which we live, this world resembles us, its made by us, for us, and sculptures appear in it as mile stones of humanity to remind us of our real nature, in front of a sculpture, it's as if we we are like in front of another human being, exposing its existence, it speaks to us, about us.

To be a sculptor, is to play in material reality to infiltrate it with our thoughts, its to push ones dream into it, when other art forms withdraws the dream contained in reality.

20 years of adventure, of dreaming sculptures and making them come into shape, observing the light reflecting on the surface, seeking or transposing proportion, thickness, dimension, asperity, that will make them loyal to their spirit, to what they should be.

20 years of confrontation, of research, of experiments, of tests, of realizations, ten monuments, tens of exhibitions, and presence in several countries, perseverant work, but never resolved, confronting reality, trying to domesticate the metal which is since the bronze age subtracted from earth in order to serve man and eternalise his presence Bronze, pored like blood in a mould, solidifies when cooled, leaving the mark of our existence, he is nervous like life, resistant like the passing time, indifferent like death. It is for these qualities that he allows the connivance between the human soul and the physical world.

It is that game of proportions, of vacuum, of plenitude, of rough or tense surfaces, of the massive or of the fragile, that is the alphabet of the sculptor who is looking for the magic of art, to create an object of power is the goal to share one's experience of living, of discovering, its choosing to stop time in a work of art to overcome one's existence.

To give it all back, is to learn to die with a smile, because if art is the signature of man it is also his mirror.

Matter is energy, that energy concretised in a form becomes intention , attitude , that energy behind the face, the personality moves our existences from the desire of having a will, to the will of having a desire, between instinct and thought.

Each sculpture tells a story, a dream their understanding gives a meaning to the work without interfering the presence the energy of it!

To concretise oneself in a work of art is a pact that the artist passed with life in a way to express one's gratitude or one's rejection.

As the erosion of elements and time give a shape to a mountain, a sculpture owes its shape to the emotion of a sculptor, thoughts and feelings have their shapes, but the purpose of this dialogue with reality has a sense only in the real dialogue, with an other human being.

As its to share ones vision that leads to the fulfilment of art.

Igor Ustinov
Mars 2000

  • The sculptor plays in the material world to infiltrate his thoughts, he pushes his dream into reality

  • Apprehend

  • "Against all odds", double individuality

  • "Life before all" familiar morphology, feet, hands, touch the present. Arms, legs look for future. Death of the past     in the head.

  • Dream of future life in sex

  • Body thrown by love for love

  • This world resembles us,
        he is made for us by us,
        sculptures appear as mile stones of humanity that link us up with our real nature.

  • "The nature of the Centaur" -our bestiality

  • In front of a sculpture its as if we were in front of another human being, exposing its existence, it speaks to us,     about us.

  • "The flying kite", sharing of gravity

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