Sculptures en Bois & Objets Artistiques
About Me
The Artist
Imperfection as proof of authenticity
The process
My process is a refusal to impose form on material. I do not carve from wood what I want – I listen to it. I study the texture as a map drawn by winds and sun. I follow the curve of a root that already contains the memory of form – a dragon, a fish, or simply pure movement.
Olive is the ideal interlocutor. Its wood holds a history of survival, of scarcity and the generosity of southern sun. My tools only carefully remove layers to reveal what already sleeps inside. Finishing is only oil and wax – returning to the tree the possibility to breathe and glow from within.
Olive is the ideal interlocutor. Its wood holds a history of survival, of scarcity and the generosity of southern sun. My tools only carefully remove layers to reveal what already sleeps inside. Finishing is only oil and wax – returning to the tree the possibility to breathe and glow from within.
Craft
Here you will not see gloss or ornamentation. Only the honesty of the material, the acceptance of imperfection, and the power of stillness – wabi-sabi. This art is not for loud declarations, but for quiet contemplation. For those who feel poetry in a crack and see an entire universe in a cross-section of wood.
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aesthetics
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Years of experience
Each work handcrafted, without machines or molds.
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Happy Clients
Every sculpture is 1/1 – a unique work that will not be repeated.
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Olive Sculptures
Carved from century-old olive roots. Each piece shaped by the natural memory of the wood.
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Driftwood Works
Sculptures from timber shaped by sea, wind and time. The material chose its own form long before the artist arrived.
Meet the artist
About Hanko
Who am I
Hanko (Gennady)
I work with ancient olive roots and sea-worn driftwood. My philosophy: not to impose, but to reveal. The form already exists inside the material – I simply listen and follow.
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About Hanko
Sculptor, olive and driftwood
Series “Transformations” explores the moment of metamorphosis. Series “Archipelago of Oblivion” explores the boundary between the material and the ephemeral.
Gallery
About my gallery
Based in Southern Europe
My workshop is on the French Riviera, where olive trees grow for centuries between the sea and the mountains. I carve from roots and trunks of olives that lived 300–500 years, and from driftwood shaped by Mediterranean waves. Every work is finished with tung oil and wax only, without varnish — the wood breathes, and the texture remains alive.
Gallery
Most galleries say: “Do not touch.” I say: please do. Your eyes draw you in. But true acquaintance happens through skin, through palm, through fingertips.
Run your hand over the surface. Feel where oil and wax have made the wood silk, and where bark remains – memory of the earth. This is a conversation without words. The completion of a dialogue that began centuries before you.
Run your hand over the surface. Feel where oil and wax have made the wood silk, and where bark remains – memory of the earth. This is a conversation without words. The completion of a dialogue that began centuries before you.
You think you are looking at a sculpture. In reality you are meeting yourself – that part of you which knows how to slow down, breathe, and feel. Thoughts stop. Silence fills the space.
This is art not for loud declarations, but for quiet contemplation. For those who feel poetry in a crack and see an entire universe in a cross-section of wood. This is a journey. Perhaps an inner one.
This is art not for loud declarations, but for quiet contemplation. For those who feel poetry in a crack and see an entire universe in a cross-section of wood. This is a journey. Perhaps an inner one.
