Philippe Morel (1948) is a french sculptor. The encounter with the land and the work of fire was so violent that Philippe Morel did not finish his third year at the Beaux-Arts in Caen and locked himself away for long days in a humid cellar, to master the work of the tour. As soon as he could he bought in 1971 an old farm almost in ruins, not found, hidden in the depths of Normandy. This is where he still lives, having worked his workshop and his house, cleared the kitchen garden, built a small and a large oven, devoted himself fifteen years to pottery before turning to the sculpture.
Morel's bronzes, with their "cheerful fissures" and a fibrous plant-like patchwork, travel through feminine geography. The body's vulnerability, the ridiculous distance between the body and death. Earth, raw matter. Thanks to the magical vagaries of well-managed firing, the colors are sulfur yellow, honey ochre, anthracite, frost white, iron red... A wonderfully veined biscuit, free of enamel.
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| Mr Philippe Morel |
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| Morel at work |
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| The studio |
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| Echafaudage |
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| Alexandra allongée |
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| Buste |
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| Corps boule |
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| Elsa tête articulée |
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| Elsa |
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| Fragment à l’épaule |
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| Gaële à la main |
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| Gaëlle aux bijoux |
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| Gersandre |
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| Julie grand visage |
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| Julie |
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| Karine yeux fermés |
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| Karine |
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| Laetitia couchée |
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| Marie Hélène drapée |
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| Marie Pierre au string |
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| Marie Pierre |
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| Marie |
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| Olivier et Marie-Pierre |
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| Patricia fragment |
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| Patricia noire |
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| Patricia timide fragment |
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| Patricia timide |
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| Patricia, les yeux clos |
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| Patricia |
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| Petit dos enfumé |
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| Petit sourire |
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| Sandrine- la danse |
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| soleil d'hiver |
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| Stéphanie portée |
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| Sylvie couchée |
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| Torse de femme en terre cuite |
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| Torse de femme en terre cuite |
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| torso argila |
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