ADOR Experience art gallery

Léo Caillard, born in Paris in 1985, is a contemporary artist renowned for his exquisite marble sculptures and avant-garde digital creations. After graduating from the École des Gobelins in 2006 and then the Beaux-Arts in 2008, he perfected his artistic approach during a stay in New York.
There, he immersed himself in the contemporary art scene and began his first digital works. His art, characterised by a dialogue between the ancient and the modern, combines antique statues and abstract digital forms. In 2011, he made a name for himself with the digital series ‘Art Game’ and ‘Hipsters in Stone’, which revisit classical sculptures with anachronistic objects.

Since 2014, he has been perfecting his marble techniques and deepening his digital creations, affirming his unique style. His works are now exhibited in prestigious fairs and collections, such as Beaubourg, La Défense, and the Nasher Collection. Since 2018, Léo Caillard has established himself as a pioneer of the Blockchain era, combining physical art and digital art. He is listed among the 20 most influential contemporary artists according to ArtPrice.

The year 2024 marks a major milestone with large-scale public commissions for the Paris Olympic Games, collaborations with renowned brands, and the creation of a monumental 3.60-metre-high permanent work at La Défense, symbolising his commitment to public art.

From her studio in Brittany, Barbara Daeffler creates unique works that explore the ancestral links between humans and animals. Inspired since childhood by the raw beauty of the wild world, she uses sculpture to question a bygone era when humans lived in harmony with animals.

Her career closely combines art and archaeology: she studied art history, ethnology and archaeology, enriched by years of practice in ceramics and teaching the arts of fire. It is in clay, a primitive and symbolic material, that she draws the essence of her artistic language.

Her animal sculptures, made of stoneware and porcelain, bear the traces of an imaginary past. Fragmented, marked by erosion or colourful tattoos, they evoke a poetic and vibrant paleontology. Through fire, textures, oxides and enamels, the artist gives her creatures a mysterious and timeless presence.

Her ‘Beasts’, sometimes monumental, hybridise worlds, elevating the animal to totem status and the material to memory. The earth becomes skin, stretched to the point of cracking, in a play of contrasts between roughness and finesse, archaism and grace.

A member of Ateliers d'Art de France since 2023, Barbara Daeffler has exhibited regularly in galleries, salons and exhibitions since setting up her studio in 2018.

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