Sep 21, 2018
Erik Salin, painter, plastic sculptor, is born in 1960 in Paris.
He lives and works today in the south of France where his workshop is located.
Renowned Custom Painter long considered by the specialized press as one of the great French references in the field. During all these years, Erik Salin uses all the traditional techniques of the great schools references (painting, drawing, acrylic, watercolors, wash, trompe l’oeil …) that mixes with each other, superimposes them to explore new directions he applies to his sculptures and creates an artistic expression of his own.
Influenced by the Pop Art movement, his figurative artistic approach reflects the codes and flaws of our consumer society. Erik Salin diverts objects from their context, combines them with others, always giving great importance to the finish and aesthetic beauty of his works.
Erik Salin sometimes uses it to deliver a critical message about our way of living and thinking. His audacious and surprising works reflect the free and unrestrained spirit of the creator. Erik Salin began his career in the world of Custom painting.
Already very noticed, he is considered one of the great French references in this field for his creativity and technique.
He naturally turns to art.
Influenced by the Pop Art movement, his achievements make him love, share and apprehend the world.
His timeless works are resolutely modern, innovative, contemporary, and send us a message to punctuate our reflections.
He manages to make him talk about the artistic scene of our time and his works are referenced in many galleries.
He participates in various exhibitions on the international level.
Each creation is unique, numbered and signed.
Sep 21, 2018
Géraldine MORIN
Géraldine MORIN was born on February 10, 1976 in Phalsbourg in Lorraine.
Barely able to walk, she already handles pencils, brushes and paint tubes, and develops an artistic sense out of the ordinary.
She connects the Arts Plastiques in Strasbourg and an advertising school at the Charpentier Academy in Paris.
She then embarked on the creation of plaster busts, then bronze sculptures and paintings.
At the same time, she creates costume jewelery as well as cardboard furniture and a baby collection (T-shirts, dishes …).
She is also passionate about photography …
Today, she creates sculptures and paintings and exhibits her works all over the world.
“Testimony bursting with youth, both sculpture and painting, these busts are a nice nose to the everyday greyness.” Thierry Sznytka
Some exhibitions Since 1998:
The Snow Biennale – Savoie – May 98
– Art in March – Astaafort – June 98
– Linéart – Gent, Belgium – December 98, 99, 2000, 2001 and 2002
– Artexpo – New York, USA – March 99 and 2001
– Euroart – Barcelona, Spain – October 99
– Artexpo – Miami (Florida), USA – January 2000
– Creation of jewels for the series “Sous le soleil” (TF1) from 2000 to 2007
– Exhibition at the Lavoir of Saint Tropez – July / August 2000 and August 2005
– Jewelry creation for Mitsukoshi Stores France and Japan – 2000
– Gallery of Provence – New York, USA – 2001/2002
– Exhibition at the Pasino of Aix-en-Provence – 2002 with parade of plaster bustiers and jewels
– Jewelry creation for show-biz stars
– Exhibition at the New Jet Set – Paris, Champs Elysees – 2003
– Creating a Baby Collection and Cardboard Furniture – 2005
– Exhibition at the Hotel Mirabeau, Aix-en-Provence – summer 2006
– Exhibition at the Royal Casino Cannes Mandelieu – summer 2007
Jul 20, 2018
Franck Tordjmann was a french sculptor and painter, born in 1958.
His favorite material is plexiglas. Of great purity, his compositions play with transparency and light to create emotion and reflection. These aerial sculptures, unique and original works, are always composed of violins and other musical instruments.
In 2005, also returns to its first passion, the painting, and he créate a new concept: the painting under Plexiglas. His paintings play with the most lively colors while preserving this exceptional luminosity.
Since 2009, Franck Tordjmann enjoying huge success with his compositions original photos around major cities : Paris, New York, Londres. The symbols of these capitals merge freely mingle, overlap to create a new city : dreamlike and magical.
In 2014, the artist still renews with ”instruments bouquets” unique sculptures made with real saxophones or trumpets… In his works, he materializes sounds. He physically interpret the emotions aroused by music.
In 2015, Franck Tordjmann continues its concept of memory objects by working on original posters of french, american or italian cinema. These posters are enhanced by a subtle work lacerage, ”Gone with the wind” and ”The ten commandments” is to be discovered in a new light.
Franck Tordjmann had permanent exhibitions since 2002 in Paris, Saint Tropez, Honfleur, Megève, Courchevel, Cannes, Arcachon, New York, Napels, Singapour.
His works are also exhibited in Knokke in Belgium and in Lausanne Switzerland
Since 2003, he is listed at Drouot, sold at Drouot and Artcurial and is part of numerous private collections in the world.
Among his collectors : Nicolas Sarkozy, Shimon Peres, Woody Allen, Madonna, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Johnny Halliday, Patrick Bruel, Naguy, Gilbert Montagné, Steve Suissa, Tomer Sisley…
Jun 25, 2018
Debra Frances Bean is Born 1967, London.
Lived and worked in New York and is now based in London.
Debra describes Artbag as a window into her soul. It was whilst studying at Central St Martins School of Art (2002-2005) that the idea for these first materialised. Debra took a beautiful handbag from a top couture house and adapted it into a silicone mould for casting.
The first bag was in heavy white plaster, but, her next bag, catch, was cast in resin and featured a goldfish inside a tank of water, mounted on a plinth. Her first pieces were highly autobiographical, as through these Debra visualised how she was feeling about various areas of her life.
Although this focus has shifted over time, Debra acknowledges that every bag is a distillation of who she has met, where she has been and what she has seen in the world. As Debra explains, ‘…all interactions leave a trace in me which inspire my work’. Every Artbag has a title and these are equally as intriguing: ranging from a single, punchy word through to smart, thought-provoking statements which brand and define the Artbag.
Debra explores ideas centred on consumption and mass production and recognises the complex relationship we have with material objects as consumable goods. With their kitschy elements these works are a clear nod to pop art, brought into the digital age: now more than ever, we curate and display the emblems that we love and they curate and display us.
Spanning luxury and familiarity, the elements held in each bag combine comfort, prestige and style. Resin encapsulation gives the chosen items a visually-intensified presence, with the anticipation of their consumption forever suspended in time, never to be realised.
The creation of an artbag has been likened to mummification in a slick and chic resin coffin. Objects are selected to ensure that they won’t break or melt in the casting process; occasionally, delicate items need their own mould. The silicone mould of the handbag comprises two parts and an initial layer of objects is laid out in each half.
Liquid resin is poured in, in layers, with a day in between for each layer to cure and with further objects added to build up the layers. To remove any last traces of air, the completed handbag is then put into a pressure chamber. This is the most delicate stage of the process as bubbles can be created in the resin. Once cured, the handbag stays in the mould for several days and when removed it is sanded down, polished to a high sheen and lacquered.
Debra Franses Bean was born in London in 1967. She studied Politics and Economics and initially pursued a career in advertising. She has lived and worked in New York and London, where she is now based. Her Artbags have been exhibited in galleries around the globe and she also undertakes private commissions. In 2015 she created works for the Coca Cola Museum to celebrate 100 years of the iconic coke bottle design and her works were shown alongside pieces by some of Debra’s own personal art heroes.
EDUCATION
2002 – 2005 BA FA Central Saint Martins, London
2001 – 2002 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, City & Guilds, LondonMy sculptures are kitsch resin handbags – with dollar bills, My Little Ponies, pocket watches, or rusted keys encased within them presenting the viewer with a parody of commercial designer desirables through hyper-real emulation.
My work takes its cue from the kitschy elements of popular culture, referencing both pop art and post modernism’s endeavours to embody these ideals. The relentless repetition of this as a form and concept is replete with notions of the mass manufactured products that contribute to society’s increasingly cluttered landscape of ‘stuff’.
I explore ideas centred on consumption and mass production and acknowledge the complex relationship that we have with material objects as consumable goods – our penchant to consume is denigrated by the ensuing guilt and anxiety that tends to follow. These handbags are commodities in and of themselves.
In as much as these works are a nod to pop art, they also allude to the digital age, as the very process by which the contents of these resin handbags are acquired is through online shopping and social networking.
May 23, 2018
Olivier Duhamel is a French artist born in 1957.
After many years of traveling in Europe, Central Africa and the South Pacific, Olivier Duhamel moved to New Zealand in 1987 and adopted his nationality in 1992.
He lives and works on the small island of Waiheke not far from Auckland where he spends his time setting up his artisanal foundry and a network of galleries representing his work in New Zealand, Australia and Europe.
He teaches bronze casting and also publishes a foundry manual. His main source of inspiration is the feminine nude he interprets in pencil with a great attention to detail but especially through an innovative figurative sculpture: sculpture called “glued laminated”.
The work of Olivier Duhamel can be defined as that of a figurative sculptor who has acquired a great deal of control over the human form, which he declines in bronze, wood and acrylic. Through his creations, he tries to capture the beauty and sensuality of his subjects of study. In art, he is particularly interested in beauty, emotion and mastery of techniques.
Career
Olivier Duhamel is a prolific artist who has acquired a mastery of the human form through years of practice of the time honoured discipline of life drawing. He initially grew a reputation as a meticulous portrait artist and then established himself as a leading New Zealand sculptor for his delicate and elegant bronze figurines. However, one aspect of his practice remains constant in his source of inspiration, the female nude. “I really like contemporary dance and wish that I could capture as much beauty and emotion with my sculptures that dancers can express with their body”
His more recent wooden sculptures and exploration of digital media are compulsive viewing and people are often fascinated by their fluctuating lights or by the translucence of his acrylic works, imbuing a resolutely contemporary texture to his rather classical and academic shapes. Once metamorphosed into static effigies, his model’s forms surprisingly retain their motion; the artist’s skilful attention to details brings out their countenance and personality. The translucence of the acrylic lets light reflect the vitality and the dynamic of the pose. Likewise, the dual tone of the wood pieces produces highlights that appears or wanes depending on the point of view, changing the appearance and texture of the sculpture’ s topography. The stiffness and strength of these materials are distinctively opposed to the softness and suppleness of the body, yet, under the hands of the sculptor, the curves of the flesh and folds of skin are delicately suggested in a celebration of the beauty, energy and sensuality of these women.
Personal Statement
“Through my creations I am trying to capture the beauty and sensuality of my subjects of study. When it comes to art, I am chiefly concerned with beauty, emotion and mastery of my craft. I am hoping that people find my work enchanting rather than thought provoking.”
Awards
Shell Todd Oil Services Ltd 3D Award -Taranaki National Art awards 2013, New Zealand
Public’s choice awards 2013”, Waitakere Art Council, New Zealand
Winner, People’s choice award SEAF 2018 – Seattle, Washington, USA
