What was it that passed under my nose in Bruges, absorbed by those tiny, heavenly, monstrous creatures in the paintings of Jheronimus Bosch?

What was it that passed under my nose as I wandered around Daniel Buren's columns in the main courtyard of the Palais-Royal in Paris, obsessed by this incessant repetition of black, white, black, white lines?

Or at the Musée du Luxembourg, at the exhibition "Pionnières, artistes dans le Paris des années folles" seduced by a wool painting by Alice Bailly?

And another time, at the Louvre-Lens Museum, taken aback by the roughness of Alberto Giacometti's works?

What passed under my nose while looking at the portraits of women painted by Pablo Picasso during his cubist period, in Malaga, Vallauris or Paris?

I don't really know yet.

In their own way, each of them has given me inspiration. Far be it from me to plagiarise one or the other artist. Just a detail, a peculiarity, a theme, a texture opened me to new nose sculptures.

Niki de Saint Phalle's bright colours and round shapes; Sonia Delaunay's self-portrait; Bernard Buffet's clown series; César's compression; Giuseppe Arcimboldo's fruit; Fernand Léger's tubes and tulips...

This new series of nose sculptures, named "En passant chez les autres" has the exclusivity to be exhibited next January at Cyril Guernieri Gallery in Paris.

Come and start the year by letting yourself be carried away by this flight of colours, shapes and originality, all around the nose!