The Timeless Art of Busts
If sculpture is humanity’s oldest language, today it is rarer than painting. This rarity protects it from the frailties of time and ordinary contingencies. To sculpt today means taking greater risks, being more demanding in the quality of one’s creation. The sculpted portrait immediately imposes a timeless dimension that sanctifies its subject.
Christian Noorbergen, art critic
In our current project, all of the proposals stand out for their evident plastic qualities and their respect for the model proposed.
Among certain artists, an immense respect for tradition prevailed, with a dignity and technical mastery that are equally impressive. The entire history of art is called upon, with subtle restraint.
For other creators, the pull of contemporary art plays fully its role as a beacon, and it is the formal audacity of plastic invention that transfigures the notion of portraiture: an adventurous gaze toward abstraction, and a happy distance taken from the initial model. Within each one’s unique singularity.
