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NEWSLETTER #28 - September 2022

Nose sculptor, the unique!


The chronicle

September at an end!


The world is cracking, oozing, drying...

The end of the good stuff is predicted.


The rillette de canard will be made with chicken, battery, anti aerial organic!

the drums, organic, not the chicken!


We will see the return of sad and languid jazz...


With jazz and drums,

It'll be all right...


serge

Sculpting, modelling, creating...

New nose sculptures in a new workshop under construction...

Carving, sculpting and polishing are beyond stubbornness. First of all, it is a matter of time: the sculptures conserved by the Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities are dated. Between the fourth millennium BC and the sixth century AD. That is 3600 years of ... work.

But it is above all a question of need. Men have felt the need to reproduce Beauty, Strength, and finally the human feelings that play on the fatigue, even the exhaustion of the craftsman, the artist.

Try the experience, sculpture is a sport... And if we talk about pottery, clay, softer materials, the difficulty remains. The material will play, and will first play with you. So, why sculpt?


Well, it's simple. There is no real answer, let alone a fixed one. Like all art, sculpture comes from that something inside us that thinkers struggle to define, arguing and counter-arguing.

The little history of "Planète Shayol"

Planet Shayol 

2021 - 68x40x40 cm

Mirabelle wood, porcelain, glazed stoneware

A friend, against his will, is forced to cut down the Mirabel tree in his garden. So eager to give it a second life, he brings it to my workshop, his heart filled with the hope that art can magnify it...

So here I am with a piece of wood full of emotion. I look at it for days. Little by little, I start to give a few strokes of the gouge to lighten it.

The work progresses until this fruit tree reminds me of a short story from the Lords of Instrumentality, a science fiction cycle written by Cordwainer Smith: The Planet Shayol.

Criminals are deported via a satellite to the planet Shayol to serve their sentences. But on this planet live small symbiotic creatures called dromozoans that try to help other living beings by causing them to grow extra organs at the cost of great suffering. Pain, fear and apprehension are part of the daily life of the criminals kept alive. However, in order to stay alive, they have to accept that organs such as heads, arms, ears and noses grow on their bodies... Once they have reached maturity, these organs are removed to be sent to other planets to heal their inhabitants...

Will the Lords of Instrumentality discover this exploitation of bodies on the planet Shayol? Will they manage to save the lives of the criminals, some of whom are lobotomised?

Next exhibition : Gallery Guernieri

This November, the Cyril Guernieri Gallery, nestled in the famous Saint Germain district of Paris, is honoured to exhibit nose sculptures of a totally new inspiration...

Welcome to my workshop, by appointment

Sheltered in a small cobbled courtyard in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, the workshop is always bustling but always ready to welcome you.

A variety of nose sculptures are on permanent display alongside utilitarian ceramic pieces and porcelain jewellery.

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Anne Millot, 36 rue de Bagnolet 75020 Paris


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