Michel Pouchet

Michel Pourchet Born in 1960 in the heart of the forges of the mining and iron and steel basin of Lorraine, his work crosses several mediums, from stone to bone, from lead to bronze, from wood to iron. In 2012, after a welding internship linked to his professional activity, iron, present everywhere, in the form of rebus, offers him unlimited accessibility and unprecedented plasticity. A metallic world, a constantly expanding field of investigation. Artistic approach: "As a child, sometimes apart, I would sit down and glean whatever the radius of my arm would allow me. I lined up by order of size and material a multitude of common things, twigs, leaves, pebbles ... I was then erecting an ephemeral temple where no thought comes to distract. I do not know the reason for reorganizing things. Yet I continue to collect and collect ... "