Isabelle Renard Amadieu

Lightness and movement, sometimes almost at the limits of balance: Isabelle Renard Amadieu's sculptures display a style that makes its originality. And naturally combine with the Zen atmosphere of his house in Charente, where light vibrates on the foliage of an olive tree. Often they also take some marks in the world of dance.

The artist, born in 1955 in Paris, paints from a very young age. She spent part of her life in Champagne, associating the practice of dentistry with that of plastic art. Gradually she went from painting and drawing living models to sculpture, exploring multiple paths there.

An extension of the drawing, her career as a sculptor began with the modeling of academic nudes: if she thus signed very beautiful works, the discipline of exact reproduction of the model was felt as an obstacle to creativity. She then broadly opens up the spectrum of techniques and materials and adopts an approach to touch everything: stone, terracotta, driftwood and resin. This curiosity remains very current and testifies to an artistic universe capable of constantly recomposing.

It is the use of wire combined with coated strips that will ultimately allow him to develop the very fine structures necessary for his creations. Their bronze work, entrusted to the Paumelle art foundry in the Marne, combines the density identified with the material and the aerial perception of the works.