French sculptor and painter Thierry Breton is featured in a June exhibition at Manhattan's Splashlight Studios Breton presents his recent series of sculptures and paintings, on view June 5-30, 2007.
May 11, 2007 (Press Release) --
"In a deliberate quest for the light, Thierry Breton sculpts color, giving form to the bodies which he paints."—La Semaine de l'Allier
"Thierry Breton gives bronze a sensual tactility"—Le Midi Libre
New York, N.Y.—French sculptor and painter Thierry Breton is featured in a June exhibition in the Northhall of Manhattan's Splashlight Studios Breton presents his recent series of sculptures and paintings, on view from Tuesday, June 5 through Saturday, June 30. The opening reception is on Tuesday, June 5, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Included in the exhibition at Splashlight Studios are Breton's sculpture series. The Spirit of the Letters, a series of 26 sculptures inspired by the letters of the roman alphabet. "Choosing to work from a rigid line alphabet was a challenging proposition. This work relates strongly to the circus, with acrobats, gymnasts, and tight-rope-walkers," explains Breton. "Although conceived as a whole, each of the series comes alive in its own right. It was fun taking something as abstract as a letter and giving it a human shape. But then, is a letter ever an abstraction?" The Two Lovable Maidens, inspired the poem "The Two Good Sisters" by Charles Baudelaire from his work The Flowers of Evil. The Ophiolâters (OPHIOLATRY : n.f. cult , adoration of snakes), a series of five bronzes, which Breton says "hints at all things hiding behind the word love . . . power plays in a couple . . . possession of the other under the pretext of love." The Bacchanates, a series of seven bronzes with plaster originals based upon the women who followed Bacchus, screaming, singing, and dancing, often in a drunken state. Breton notes that in this series he worked "on the theme of drunken dance, on the energy of movement from which leap, bound gyration, and pirouette are born. These are silhouettes, ideograms almost , a form of writing."
Also featured are Breton's recent paintings,The Danaës, a series of ten large format paintings (approximately 63x39 inches) as well as small early sketches (8x8 inches, watercolor and gouache) that formed the basis of the series. Breton says that he was inspired by the thought that when "Zeus impregnated Danaë in the guise of a golden rain wasn't he being a painter? Gold is the light that gives life to everything."
Thierry Breton grew in Africa then in Martinique, going to Paris to study veterinary medicine. He has devoted all his time to art, showing his work in a series of exhibitions in various Parisian galleries, where he has continued to exhibit over the years as well as in Barcelona, Milan, and Deauville, and in Hudson, New York, and New York City. Recently he has shown in Montpellier, France ,and in Gstaad, Switzerland, at the Nabokov Gallery. His Danaës painting series was on view in in Rouen and Vichy, France, last year. His most recent series of bronze sculptures The Spirit of the Letters was shown in Paris last June.
"Thierry Breton gives bronze a sensual tactility"—Le Midi Libre
New York, N.Y.—French sculptor and painter Thierry Breton is featured in a June exhibition in the Northhall of Manhattan's Splashlight Studios Breton presents his recent series of sculptures and paintings, on view from Tuesday, June 5 through Saturday, June 30. The opening reception is on Tuesday, June 5, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Included in the exhibition at Splashlight Studios are Breton's sculpture series. The Spirit of the Letters, a series of 26 sculptures inspired by the letters of the roman alphabet. "Choosing to work from a rigid line alphabet was a challenging proposition. This work relates strongly to the circus, with acrobats, gymnasts, and tight-rope-walkers," explains Breton. "Although conceived as a whole, each of the series comes alive in its own right. It was fun taking something as abstract as a letter and giving it a human shape. But then, is a letter ever an abstraction?" The Two Lovable Maidens, inspired the poem "The Two Good Sisters" by Charles Baudelaire from his work The Flowers of Evil. The Ophiolâters (OPHIOLATRY : n.f. cult , adoration of snakes), a series of five bronzes, which Breton says "hints at all things hiding behind the word love . . . power plays in a couple . . . possession of the other under the pretext of love." The Bacchanates, a series of seven bronzes with plaster originals based upon the women who followed Bacchus, screaming, singing, and dancing, often in a drunken state. Breton notes that in this series he worked "on the theme of drunken dance, on the energy of movement from which leap, bound gyration, and pirouette are born. These are silhouettes, ideograms almost , a form of writing."
Also featured are Breton's recent paintings,The Danaës, a series of ten large format paintings (approximately 63x39 inches) as well as small early sketches (8x8 inches, watercolor and gouache) that formed the basis of the series. Breton says that he was inspired by the thought that when "Zeus impregnated Danaë in the guise of a golden rain wasn't he being a painter? Gold is the light that gives life to everything."
Thierry Breton grew in Africa then in Martinique, going to Paris to study veterinary medicine. He has devoted all his time to art, showing his work in a series of exhibitions in various Parisian galleries, where he has continued to exhibit over the years as well as in Barcelona, Milan, and Deauville, and in Hudson, New York, and New York City. Recently he has shown in Montpellier, France ,and in Gstaad, Switzerland, at the Nabokov Gallery. His Danaës painting series was on view in in Rouen and Vichy, France, last year. His most recent series of bronze sculptures The Spirit of the Letters was shown in Paris last June.
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