Norbert Joblin

Norbert Joblin's figures translate what is dramatic and tragic in our human condition. They are broken faces, totems who no longer believe in heroism and surpassing oneself. Confessions of our contemporary time, full of sound and fury. His sculptures are barely distorted mirrors of our suffering, our anxieties and a heavy and shattered reality. The miracle is that these hard, merciless works secrete their own beauty, not conforming to classical aesthetics obviously, but faithful to the acceleration, the brutality of our time. A harsh, punchy, fascinating beauty, at the height of today's man. But which also seems to emanate from a time before history, from a sort of prehistory, when man tried to represent himself in an archaic style.