Sylvie Magadur

Sylvie Magadur is a sculptor, specializing in clay and bronze work.

Born in Saint-Etienne, she devoted herself, first of all, to a passion for drawing and painting, thus developing her sensitivity for art. Studies and family life leading her to move regularly, she experimented - in the sandstone of workshops and schools of fine arts that she attended - new techniques: oil painting, ceramics and finally, the sculpture.

A graduate of the National School of Horticulture in Versailles and drawn to the aesthetics of gardens, Sylvie Magadur worked as a landscape designer for a number of years. For her, sculpture is a continuation of this rich experience: “There are many similarities in sculpture and garden design. In both cases, it is a question of taking possession of a space, of creating volumes, alternations, contrasts, tensions and ultimately, a balance…"

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In 2014, she joined the studio of the artist sculptor Luo Li Rong, in Brussels, with whom she trained for 4 years and discovered bronze work.

Now established in Lyon, Sylvie Magadur highlights, in her latest collection, the emotion of the moment, through a series of swimmers, whose positions seem frozen, caught between two waters. “I tried to capture fleeting positions, flashes of life. »