Artist of the day, August 7: Philippe Morel, a french sculptor. (#765)

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

Morel at work

The studio

Echafaudage

Alexandra allongée

Buste

Corps boule

Elsa tête articulée

Elsa

Fragment à l’épaule

Gaële à la main

Gaëlle aux bijoux

Gersandre

Julie grand visage

Julie

Karine yeux fermés

Karine

Laetitia couchée

Marie Hélène drapée

Marie Pierre au string

Marie Pierre

Marie

Olivier et Marie-Pierre

Patricia fragment

Patricia noire

Patricia timide fragment

Patricia timide

Patricia, les yeux clos

Patricia

Petit dos enfumé

Petit sourire

Sandrine- la danse

soleil d'hiver

Stéphanie portée

Sylvie couchée

Torse de femme en terre cuite

Torse de femme en terre cuite

torso argila