France
• 1964
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Born in 1964, Pascal Boyer is a French visual artist.
Pascal Boyer sculpts with leather.The artists likes to represent human beings and more specifically their skin. Since the skin is a unique part of each of us and it retains the traces of our past experiences through scars, tattoos and other stigmas.
Each piece of skin that he creates is the reflect of a civilization or of a cultural choice. In one same piece, Pascal Boyer can combine the Maori scarification with Picasso's iconography.
Pascal Boyer tries to bring together all societies and show that despite the differences, we are all alike. He gives birth to the Universal Man. In order to emphasize his spirit of unification, Pascal Boyer leaves every seam uncovered because even if they could seem unaesthetic, they have a strong symbolic meaning.
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Pascal Boyer sculpts with leather.The artists likes to represent human beings and more specifically their skin. Since the skin is a unique part of each of us and it retains the traces of our past experiences through scars, tattoos and other stigmas.
Each piece of skin that he creates is the reflect of a civilization or of a cultural choice. In one same piece, Pascal Boyer can combine the Maori scarification with Picasso's iconography.
Pascal Boyer tries to bring together all societies and show that despite the differences, we are all alike. He gives birth to the Universal Man. In order to emphasize his spirit of unification, Pascal Boyer leaves every seam uncovered because even if they could seem unaesthetic, they have a strong symbolic meaning.
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The year of birth of the artist is: 1964