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Nicolas Bianco  

Nicolas Bianco is a self-taught French artist. Born in Nice, he is steeped in the work of leading artists from the Nice school, Klein, Arman, Cesar, Sosno, Ben and Venet, with whom he discovered, at a very young age, contemporary art and its power to transgress the very notion of a work of art.

Attracted by volumes, he turned to sculpture as a preferred means of expression. He is primarily interested in the symbols and icons of popular culture and street culture that rocked his childhood and adolescence during the 80s and 90s. He gives shape to his memories in his marble sculptures, a kind of precious ready-made that bring past years back to life.

The material object is the center of attention but the artist wants to transcend it, he wants to broaden its framework and delay its definition as much as possible. The simple object then becomes an energy, an emotion, an era.

Eager for constantly renewed experiences, Nicolas Bianco has developed his personal aesthetic using innovative and daring techniques and images. He stages the great classics in a luminous way with a modern and stripped-down writing. His series of objects "Nostalgia" represents each significant year of his youth by the object symbolizing an apprenticeship and an evolution of life such as Lego or the basketball hoop...

To give life to his works he uses noble and raw materials, marble has thus become obvious as well as gold which underlines it. His lines are timeless, his marble works awaken in us a positive nostalgia.