Benoît Polvêche works with steel and transforms this unruly, rigorously rectilinear, mineral, and industrial material into an intuitive and organic flora and bestiary. His creatures, inspired by the richness of the biotope, reinvent a flora and bestiary that blend species to the point of proposing new mutations to nature, threatened by human activity. Implementing metal directly through a combination of traditional and modern techniques, he creates, in a shameless and free experimentation, unique pieces whose elegance and fantasy offer us a poetic mirror of the living world.
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