After my paintings and the "Or& Brun" installations, I really needed to sculpt. Sculpture really permitted me to model bodies which came from some unpremeditated urge. If with the "Or&Brun" installations, the rings may evoke bodies, this time,with sculpture and clay, the bodies were represented. All of them being nudes, allowed me to focus on muscles. It also permits corporal expression as in Dance. In my opinion, it's the very expression of life itself. If my sculptures were to wear clothes, it would become anecdotal. That physical nudity as perceived through modelled clay, serves the feelings life is made up of. Death, Love, Alterity are expressed in "Horizon n°1" and "Requiem". I started with "Horizon n°1": two characters, close to each other, but who don't see each other. I then proceeded with "Requiem" which deal with death and suffering. Other pieces of art followed, among which "Espérance" The physical duality between man and woman allows me, thanks to those real physical differences, to focus on a formal dialogue which, owing to that contextuality, gives birth to the new expressive shapes which guide me. "It's the human being I question for the viewer I am, the viewer you also are. It's a bit tough, it's not easy to deal with that topic. Just as it can be a weapon, as Picasso put it, sculpture may allow the one who really wants to and who's got time to give, to be the tool for a deep metamorphosis. I've always thought Art should be a way towards knowledge, and never a futile way to consume.Especially when oesthetic self-centered forms of power fight with each other. I will not bring a modern or contemporary form of oesthetics into opposition with some old fashioned classicism but focus on the incarnation of deep meaning which some hermeneutics allow to liberate in pieces of art.

Bruno Clognier April, 2020