Body and Soul: the Materials of Sculpture
How can we breathe life into a petrified work of art? If man was created from clay, can a sculptor not be considered as a demiurge as well? Rooted in materiality, sculpture is a profoundly human art, which reminds us both of our human contingency, and of the miraculous complexity of the human body. Imbued with contrasts - strength and fragility, roughness and expressivity, movement and immobility a sculpture ultimately becomes a metaphor of the human being through the materials used by the sculptor highlighting the exceptional aspects of the ephemeral cycle of life.
