Sculptures en Bois & Objets Artistiques
Gallery of Abstract Sculpture in Cannes
Where time doesn’t run in a straight line.
Olive trees that have lived three, five hundred years give up their roots and trunks to the chisel here. Driftwood, carried for years by the Mediterranean current, arrives almost finished — the sea has already done part of the sculptor’s work. Things people discarded and forgot get a second life here. Each material carries its own memory: drought and heat in the olive wood, current in the driftwood, other hands in what’s found.
Handcrafted from ancient
olive roots
olive roots
Wabi-Sabi, and Surrealism Taken Seriously
Out of that memory, the forms emerge — never invented in advance, always found in the material itself. This is wabi-sabi at its purest: beauty unafraid to be imperfect, unfinished, alive. And it’s surrealism in its most honest sense — shapes that feel impossible simply because they weren’t imagined, but grown: bodies, myths, ages of time, all caught mid-motion between what has already happened and what hasn’t yet been decided.
Finishing is oil and wax only – returning to the tree the possibility to breathe and glow from within.
A Conversation Without Words
Come closer. Run your hand across the surface — this is a conversation that needs no words. And perhaps what you meet isn’t the sculpture at all, but the part of yourself that still knows how to slow down, breathe, and really look