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Gus,
2022
Céline Parmentier
Sculpture : wood
75 x 20 x 30 cm 29.5 x 7.9 x 11.8 inch
$694
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About the artwork
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Unique work
Signature
Engraved signature
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75 x 20 x 30 cm 29.5 x 7.9 x 11.8 inch Height x Width x Depth
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The sculpture cannot be displayed outdoors
Artwork sold in perfect condition
Artwork location: France
Carved from a piece of raw wood, this sculpture was designed in its simplicity for its expressive character. I worked the texture of the wood so that it gives a feeling of robustness and spontaneity. I exploited the natural lines and veins of the wood to accentuate the facial features. Each gouge stroke was intended to reveal a precise form: the eyes sunk in their dark cavities, the prominent nose and the lips sculpted simply using the form that was already present in the material. This human figure carved in a rough way draws its expression from the shape of its mouth which was the starting point of the overall composition. The imperfections of the wood are not camouflaged but integrated as constitutive elements of the work, emphasizing the beauty of the imperfect and the passage of time. The overall shape of the sculpture, elongated and slightly curved, gives an impression of movement, almost as if it followed the natural flow of the wood as it was when it was still a tree.
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Presentation
Céline Parmentier is an artist who creates sculptures and prints on the edge of the forest of Fontainebleau. She has exhibited in France and abroad since 2012.
In his work which is linked to the living, the connections between species, it happens that his characters are similar to hybrids. Everything is then a pretext to have fun with gender and borders by creating encounters between bodies and necessary or hazardous metamorphoses.
The wood she works comes from her region rich in noble and fruit trees. Sculpting allows him to reveal the intimacy of wood, its accidents of growth, its knots, its fiber, its color, its beauty, its course of life. Time works and the work on this generous material gives it a second life.
The tools she uses are mostly manual which gives clean and clean cuts, thus allowing to cut to go to the essential line and the intensity of the shape. The material is removed methodically and slowly, the exciting challenge being to put an idea into volume and inscribe it in space.
The lines and colors of his engraving work are also born from a slow and incisive gesture to give shape to an expressive alchemy. Exploring the techniques linked to printmaking promotes the appearance of a little mythology hitherto hidden, freeing up the formatting of a graphic story. The mystery of the inks and the passage under the press are always a suspended moment, a time of surprise then of escape.
For Céline, sculpting and engraving are closely linked and have their full meaning in her artistic practice.
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