Contact: Amaury Prot – Montpellier – France
Tel: + 33 (6) 59 26 11 96
Email: amauryprot@gmail.com Site: www.amauryprot-sculpteur.com

Studio visits by appointment

Contact for Switzerland:
artnet.ch – Christiane Franquin, 1268 Begnins, Suisse
Tel: +41 (0) 22 366 42 22 / +41 (0) 76 521 50 60  Email: info@artnet.ch

Biography

Amaury Prot

Born in 1976, I spent the first 20 years of my life between Africa, Southeast Asia, and the United States, as a consequence of various overseas assignments of my parents, before returning to Europe.
My sources of inspiration are to be found in the diversity of form—natural, architectural, artistic—which surround me, and especially the people among whom I lived: the wealth and diversity of their different cultures, origins and ethnicities.
I acquired a basic grounding in sculpture in 1996 and have been practicing it professionally since 2002. I work primarily with clay, although numerous other materials attract me. I love this particular material, the fact that it alone combines the four natural elements: earth, water, air and fire.

Influenced by what is termed ‘ethnic’ art, I seek to find and explore purified shapes and forms through which I can express and share all those feelings alive and flowing within me: love, pain, interchange of ideas, sharing, happiness, rebellion…
I work on impulse. Each sculpture is a part of me but also the technical challenge of making it materialized, making it actually come to life. In my work, each piece is the expression of my own personal searching and an understanding of others.

Main Exhibitions

“Salon des Artistes Indépendants“ (Exhibition of Independent Artists), Grand Palais, Paris, France
“Europ’Art”, Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland
“Autumn Exhibition”, nr Pont-du-Gard, France, Gold Medal
Montpellier City & Urban Centre, Montpellier, France
Art Centre “Le Renaissance”, Uzès, France
Salle de la Gerbe (Community Hall ), Grabels, France

Contact: Henri Bertrand  Tel: +41 (0) 21 800 06 86
Email: henri-b@bluemail.ch Son site: www.henribertrand.ch

Studio visits by appointment

About myself

Place of birth :  Born 1946 in Geneva, Switzerland

Residence  :  Apples, Vaud

Education :   Geographer, teacher, infographist artist

Memberships :  Société Suisse des Beaux Arts, Geneva section

Professional member of ISC-International Sculpture Center

Biography

Throughout the ages, erosion and telluric forces, active on a geological scale of time, have been shaping our planet. During all this time, intimately linked to this mineral world, life continues to unfurl the complex profusion of its history.

Among the most recent life forms, humanity has been inscribing its own footprint on the planet Earth, as other species now extinct have done in the past. However, though humanity is subject to the same natural laws as other life forms, it has modified, and continues to modify, the fundamental balance of the planet with a speed and to an extent never before reached, thereby running the risk of endangering its own future.

It is within this framework that my work as a sculptor lies.

My training as a geographer has led me to appreciate the spatial dimension of human activity; my more intuitive artistic perspective has allowed me to visually transpose the feelings inspired by my perception of the world.

Trees, attached to a given geographic location, are a living sign of the vital link they maintain with the soil in which they grow. Their capacity to embody the path leading from the mineral world to organic life has made them, for me, the foundation on which my work as a sculptor is based.

In the mass of wood provided by the tree, I sculpt successions of carefully controlled, undulating layers. Once colors are applied to these undulations, they act upon each other, developing a play of systematic and random forms which combine to create surfaces reminiscent of the forces that shape the planet earth. More and more often, I incorporate in my work groups of small human figures moving about in a vast environment which they act upon, but which nevertheless surpasses them.

Professional activities

2010-2007 Sculpture, Apples

2006-2004 Personal plastic productions, 1000 Parker Street, Vancouver

2003-2002 Graphics/infographics teacher, Haute Ecole de Gestion, Genève

2004-1978 Geography + multimedia teacher, Collège et Ecole de commerce Emilie-Gourd, Geneva

1978-1971 Assistant (map making), Geography department, Geneva University

Personal graphic activity

2010-2005 Further reflexion on ways to express the power of tectonic forces and fragility of terrestrial ecosystem in my sculpted work.

2004-2003 Beginning of a reflection on how to visually transpose my perception of  fundamental elements in natural or man-made landscapes (iteration of simple  lines/shapes, juxtaposition/succession of different temporal and spatial scales).

2002-1988 Infographics and drawing : posters, show information leaflets (theater, exhibitions…), corporate image conception, web-design,
Personal picture designing
Participation to drawing and sculpture (wood, metal) training courses.
Small personal production

Personal exhibitions

May – June 2010 : «Finitudes», Fondation L’Estrée, Ropraz

November 2006 : 10th Eastside Culture Crawl, Vancouver

November 2005 : 9th Eastside Culture Crawl, Vancouver

Oct. – Dec 2005  : Old FireHall Arts Centre, Vancouver

October 2005 : L’Espace, Vancouver

March – April 2005 : Alliance française, Vancouver

November 2004 : 8th Eastside Culture Crawl, Vancouver

December 2003 : Salon Plaza, Genève

Group shows

Coming: June 2011 «Botanica», SSBA, Villa du Jardin Alpin, Genève

November 2010 «Artcaddie», Fondation L’Estrée, MAG, Montreux

July-Aug. 2007 Cantorama, Jaun, Fribourg, Suisse

November 2006 Francophone Cultural and Artistic Council of British Columbia, Richmond

February 2006 Vancouver International Film Centre & Vancity Theater, «Les 12ès Rendez-vous du Cinéma québécois et francophone»

October 2005 Have to Have (Culture Crawl pre-show), Home & Interior Design Show, Vancouver

Other works: Photography

Contact: artnet.ch – Christiane Franquin, 1268 Begnins, Switzerland
Tel: +41 (0) 22 366 42 22 / +41 (0) 76 521 50 60 Email: info@artnet.ch

Alain Bresson was born in 1948 in Morocco.
Today he lives and works in France’s Yonne region. His work incorporates elements of Land Art and of the art of the Peculiar. Transient or otherwise, his creations call for a natural background: forest, parc, garden or other public space.

Biography

You can sometimes find him in a forest, walking between trees. He keeps his eyes peeled, looking for just the right branch, shape or life — for traces of life that testify to attacks on natural life and the pitilessness of a world that uncaringly destroys in the name of human consumption.

Alain Bresson’s world is thus full of promise if you know how to capture its lights.

Selection of exhibitions since 2000

2000

15 ans de sculpture, Biennale, Avallon, France
Maison de la sculpture, Nevers, France
Sculptures monumentales, Jura, France

2001
Maison de la Culture, Nevers, France
Espace culture et céramique, Vallorbe, Suisse

2003

Exposition Zoo Exquis, Château du Grand Jardin, Joinville (52), France
Un village, un artiste, 89740 Gland, France

2004

Sculptures dans la Ville – Saint-Dizier – Haute-Marne, France
Centre des Congrès de Reims – Marne, France

2005

Centre d’art contemporain Passages de Troyes (Aube) , France
Musée National de la céramique – SEVRES.
Centre D’art Passages – TROYES.
Maison de l’outil , biennale internationale de la céramique – TROYES. France

2006

Sculptures monumentales, Centre Culturel Franco – Guinéen – CONAKRY -GUINEE
Galerie CRID’ART, Amneville-les-Thermes, France
Exposition – Maison des Arts et des Loisirs – Laon, France

2007

Sculptures monumentales – Château du Grand Jardin – Joinville (52) , France
Sculptures monumentales – Espace Beaujon – festival du Trop – Paris, France
Festival de la ronde des feux – Chaource (10) , France

2008

Photographies – Expédition scientifique et artistique – Groenland, Canada
Exposition Mail’Art, Le Sélect – Paris Montparnasse, France

2009

Espace Bouchez – exposition photographies – Tonnerre (89) , France
Sculptures monumentales – Laufenburg – Allemagne
Sculptures monumentales – Argenteuil sur Armançon (89) , France
Sculptures monumentales – journées du patrimoine – La Ville sous Orbais (51) , France

Contact: artnet.ch – Christiane Franquin, 1268 Begnins, Switzerland
Tel: +41 (0) 22 366 42 22 / +41 (0) 76 521 50 60 Email: info@artnet.ch

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Theodora BARAZZONE was born in 1951 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Graduate of the Geneva School of Fine Arts, she also attended art schools in London and Mexico. She has carried out several major architectural sculpture restoration assignments in Geneva since 1981. Regularly exhibits in Switzerland and France.

Catalogue note

Theodora BARAZZONE’s sculptures are resolutely anthropomorphic. These blossoming yet delicate or even innocent figures arouse a sense of direct sharing of the emotions hinted at by the subtle tensions inscribed in the stone. The apparently simple postures generate a strong feeling of urgency, a spinal stimulus, as though something were about to happen, as if a movement was momentarily suspended or had been caught off-balance in a passing gaze. At the same time the dynamics of gravity, the invisible links with the earth, are at play, underscoring the contemplative sedateness or playful buoyancy of these quasi-allegorical or metaphorical figures.

Contact: artnet.ch – Christiane Franquin, 1268 Begnins, Switzerland
Tel: +41 (0) 22 366 42 22 / +41 (0) 76 521 50 60  Email: info@artnet.ch

Studio visits by appointment

“During my youth and adolescence, I kept wondering WHAT I was.

To what was I bound?

What was my life supposed to amount to?

It was surely through the urge to create that I found an answer.

This in fact led me to another question:

Now, WHO am I ?

So I no longer ask for whom I create…

but instead ask why I create.

I remain convinced that questioning alone will never suffice…

but that it is vital to discover from which standpoint and with which attitude it is preferable to be curious.

Art is a tool of universal understanding.

For if truth can display multiple faces, for each of us the true path can only be a given attitude, a single project.”

(text by Paul Estier)

Exhibitions

• Banque Allemande Privée, Zurich, Switzerland
• Nestlé Orbe, Switzerland
• Galerie La Grange. Romainmotier, Switzerland
• Théatre de Beausobre, Morges, Switzerland
• Espace Arte Viva Paris, France
• Hotel de Ville d’Yverdon, Switzerland
• Marchand d’art Robert Debruin  (various private exhibitions)