
L'art s'offre-t'il ?
L’art n’est pas un objet comme les autres. Il ne sert pas à quelque chose de précis, ne répond pas à un besoin immédiat. Il existe pour être regardé, ressenti, vécu. Alors, peut-on vraiment offrir une œuvre d’art ?
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Alain Mandon presents himself as a self-taught artist. First a painter, then a sculptor, he created his first sculpture seven years ago, inspired by his wife's breast cancer and her breast reconstruction journey. To help her accept her new body, he made a first bust by molding her body, wishing to reveal her beauty. This first success, both psychological for his wife and artistic, encouraged him to continue on this path.
Since then, Alain has devoted a large part of his work to creating sculpted busts representing body fragments. He starts with a plaster cast, which he uses to shape his sculptures by projecting molten metal. The artist works with the material in such a way as to give it an irregular effect, as if it had been eroded by time. This gives his works an almost antique look, like relics that have survived the centuries.
The work of Alain Mandon, imbued with profound sensitivity and technical mastery, invites us to contemplate the timeless beauty of human forms, transformed by trial and enhanced by art. His sculptures, both fragile and powerful, are moving testimonies of resilience and love.

Allan Stephens is a Franco-English figurative artist born in 1970 in the suburbs of London. He paints his environment and seeks to represent it in his works. With a career spanning more than 20 years, he has organized numerous exhibitions in France and abroad.
Recently, he published two art books: the first in 2017, which includes 80 paintings painted during his trip to Normandy, and the second in 2020, which includes 52 paintings representing La Rochelle.

L’art n’est pas un objet comme les autres. Il ne sert pas à quelque chose de précis, ne répond pas à un besoin immédiat. Il existe pour être regardé, ressenti, vécu. Alors, peut-on vraiment offrir une œuvre d’art ?
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