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Midlife crisis

Bronze  – 47 x 44 x 30 cm The middle-aged lust, as you know yet, is a particular devil who bites the mature men and makes them go nuts for young and beautiful creatures.

In this situation, I think that the man releases his animal instincts and that it becomes the toy of these young women.

Vanity of the beauty

terracotta, 41 x 25 x 23 cm There are two extraordinary texts in the Old Testament :the Song of Solomon and the Ecclesiastes ( Kohelet ). Everyone knows the Ecclesiastes, this text that deals with the vanities of this world and whose first sentence is : « Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity ». (Ecclesiastes means : ‘the one who tells’)

I worked on the Vanities, a subject still so actual in our century, where the prevalence of the form on the substance, the outside on the inside becomes increasingly evident each day.

 

 

 

Angel

bronze fonte à la cire perduebronze, H 90 x 40 x 40 cm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This sculpture evokes both sorts of pollution which we undergo:

–   The material pollution of the world in which we live, which is represented by this character on the column, with a gas mask

–  another much more insidious pollution- which is of spiritual order, which I symbolized by this angel nailed on the ground, by thinking       of Baudelaire’s verse:

–   his giant’s wings prevent him from walking  » (the Albatross).

 

Circé

Description


During his journeys, Ulysses arrived on the Island of Circé, the magician daughter of the sun, holder of the power to transform the men into animals.

She transformed into swine the companions of Ulysses, by making them drinking a magic philter, but Ulysses who was warned did not drink. Then, a love story rose between Circé and Ulysses and she restored his companions into human shape.

 

By showing Circé pouring the magic liquid, I wanted to make an analogy with the current world. Indeed, the power was reversed: here, the woman is in phallic position, it is her who sows and who transforms, while in the traditional societies, it is the man who gives the seed and the woman who is the receptacle.

Athanor

bronze fonte à la cire perdueH 104 x 45 x 36 cm


The word in itself indicates the melting pot of the alchemists, where the philosopher’s stone was designed, which before being a stone which transmute mean metals into gold is above all a stone of life.

I consider the stomach of the pregnant woman as an alchemy melting pot where life by itself is designed.

There are various manners to create a sacred space: the simplest is to cover this space. To introduce the idea of the sacred about the reproduction, I simply placed the sculpture under a kind of canopy.