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Item Ships From: Atlanta
Buffalo, 2008
By Valay Shende
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Valay Shende is an Indian sculptor and video artist born in Nagpur, Maharashtra in 1980. He received his Diploma in Art Education in Nagpur in 2000 bef...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Brass
Hormiga N° 1 con Cereza
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Gerardo Fernandez South American Artist set of 10 bronze stick bugs with iron antennas. Some bugs have circles on their feet in order to make an art installa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Elegant
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Jean-Louis Corby was born in 1951 and was predominantly influenced creatively by the 1970s. The 1970s were a period of consolidation and growth in the arts, most often characterised ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Airplane
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Uses versatility of techniques and materials to create sculptures adorned with irony and contemporary beauty in accordance with urban art. Throughout his life, he has been accompanie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
L'Echauffeuse Hot Lips
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Louis Durot was born in Paris on April 22, 1939. He was something of an enfant terrible, and managed to be expelled from various schools for bad conduct. His ambition, as stated to his parents, was to earn money without having to work, and for a time, he was an “escort-boy” for a Parisian Grande Dame. He did, however, manage to get a good education in spite of himself, and received his Baccalaureate degree from Lycee Louis Pasteur in 1956.
In 1960, he enrolled in the Facultie de Sciences, where he studied mathematics. He terminated his math studies in 1963, and turned his attention to engineering, working for Equipel, where he was responsible for calculating and measuring resistance for prototype nuclear generators. Equipel became a research facility, and offered Durot the opportunity to study organic chemistry.
Durot directed numerous research projects for Equipel between 1966 and 1972. During this time, in fact, starting in 1964, he made many friends in the art world, gathering together artists from a variety of disciplines to form an artists commune — the Freelane Studio. Among the members were jazz journalist Gilles Brinnon, and a young painter, Jean Ihallero — a friend of the painter Maxime Defert.
Through them, he met the artist Francois Arnal, who was interested in Durots’ engineering expertise for his sculptures. They got on well, and worked together for two years. Also in this circle were the actress Micheline Presle and the actor Daniel Gelin. In 1968, Arnal and Presle created Le Festival de Theatre de Chateauvallon, and through this, Durot became friends with the noted film director Ulysse Reynaud.
In 1966, Francois Arnal introduced Durot to the artist Cesar, with the idea that Durot’s talents as a chemical engineer would be useful. Durot spent a year helping Cesar to master the techniques of working with polyurethane foam, with Durot searching for ways to make this fragile and ephemeral substance more stable and permanent, and more amenable to control. Cesars’ first works in this medium were flat, due to the difficulty of controlling the foam, but he went on to create his famous “expansions”.
In 1968, Durot conceived a project to create more three-dimensional sculptures following a simple and precise design. It was during this time that Durot made his first polyurethane sculptures — the Champignons and Plantes Carnivores. Also in 1968, he He opened his first technical studio at 35, rue Leon.
In order to support this new endeavor,( he needed more space, equipment, time and money), he created La Societe Durgalith. 1971 saw the Durat’s first works exhibited at the Salon Batimat in Paris. With this exhibition, Durot was hoping to attract the attention of architects with whom he could collaborate.
Between 1971 and 1974, Durot created sixty sculptures inspired by fantastical “alien” life, mushrooms, and carnivorous plants. In 1974, Durot”s Societie Durgalith ran into problems with the Italian firm that owned Batimat. Credit Lyonnaise seized his studio and many of his sculptures, and quite a number of them were destroyed. This same year, Durot worked with the architects Sloan and Lecouter on an inflatable structure for the Pavillion Franaise in Osaka. Unfortunately, the project was never realized.
Durot continued to pursue his research on polyurethanes, and gained world-wide recognition for his developments in this field. In 1977, a “student prank” had un-expectedly bad consequences. Durot was employed as an engineer at L’Usine Francaise de la Monnaie (the French mint) in Pessac. He took three kilos of “blanks”, and used them for playing slot-machines. For this, he spent seven weeks in jail, which was ended by an amnesty granted by Mitterand in 1981. During Durot’s time in prison, he took up weight-lifting, and also designed his next generation of sculptures. The spirals, feet, lips, and a series of erotic chairs...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
All my Time, 2009
By Debra Fritts
Located in ATLANTA, GA
As a child, I had dirt under my fingernails. I continue to allow the earth to feed me information for my art and for daily living. My expression is basic yet intrigues me to continue...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Hormiga N° 8 con Pera
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Gerardo Fernandez South American Artist set of 10 bronze stick bugs with iron antennas. Some bugs have circles on their feet in order to make an art ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hormiga con Manzana
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Gerardo Fernandez South American Artist set of 10 bronze stick bugs with iron antennas. Some bugs have circles on their feet in order to make an art ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The ancient plastic society
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Dario Tironi is the artist that evades the classic canons of Besharat Gallery's sculptures.
But we could not remain indifferent to his fantastic, incredi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
YOGA II
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Gold Leaf
Plant' Scukpt'4, 2020
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Coming to the earth recently ... but a desire buried since childhood following the visit of potters' workshops.
For several years, as an amateur and self-taught, I knead ,,I add ,,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Bebe en guaya
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Gerardo Fernandez South American Artist set of 10 bronze stick bugs with iron antennas. Some bugs have circles on their feet in order to make an art ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Adolescente
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Gerardo Fernandez South American Artist set of 10 bronze stick bugs with iron antennas. Some bugs have circles on their feet in order to make an art ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Weight Scale, 2008
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Unknown Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
ICE
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
GRAND PRIX
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Equide, 2014
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Jacopo Scassellati was born in Sassari (Sardinia) in 1989 where he still resides today. His family is originally from Umbria. Very early on, he displayed a strong predisposition for ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Single-Seater II, 2005
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Uses versatility of techniques and materials to create sculptures adorned with irony and contemporary beauty in accordance with urban art. Throughout his life, he has been accompanie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Old School Driving, 2011
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Uses versatility of techniques and materials to create sculptures adorned with irony and contemporary beauty in accordance with urban art. Throughout his life, he has been accompanie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
HENRI 4
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Found Objects
Eté
By Hugo Rivas
Located in ATLANTA, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.”
Ugo Riva is probably the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Trionfo della Memoria, 2007
By Hugo Rivas
Located in ATLANTA, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.”
Ugo Riva is probably the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Iron, Bronze
Unlocking Spiritual Mysteries
By Tolla Inbar
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Tolla Inbar is an international sculpture artist. Born in Germany in 1958, Tolla attended the Merz school in Stuttgart until 1971. There she specializing in the art of ceramics and s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Acrobats, 2010
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Jean-Louis Corby was born in 1951 and was predominantly influenced creatively by the 1970s. The 1970s were a period of consolidation and growth in the arts, most often characterised ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Fosca & Lluís, 2008
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Uses versatility of techniques and materials to create sculptures adorned with irony and contemporary beauty in accordance with urban art. Throughout his life, he has been accompanie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Chick on Wheels, 2010
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Uses versatility of techniques and materials to create sculptures adorned with irony and contemporary beauty in accordance with urban art. Throughout his life, he has been accompanie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Can de Luxe
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Uses versatility of techniques and materials to create sculptures adorned with irony and contemporary beauty in accordance with urban art. Throughout his life, he has been accompanie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Halley
Located in ATLANTA, GA
In life, every time you do or make something you have the opportunity to make something creative and original. Take something, add to it and pass it on; that’s the creative process. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Toys: Horsie
By Carlos Tirado
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Carlos J. Tirado (born on April 3, 1964 in Caracas, Venezuela) is an artist, painter and sculptor who has developed a very personal and precise line of work linked to Neo-Pop art. Wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Niña en guaya
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Gerardo Fernandez South American Artist set of 10 bronze stick bugs with iron antennas. Some bugs have circles on their feet in order to make an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dogs of War, 2003
By Thomas PROCHNOW
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Thomas Prochnow is a German Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1978. Their work was featured in several exhibitions at key galleries and museums, including the Semjon Con...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
After Mickey
By Carlos Tirado
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Carlos J. Tirado (born on April 3, 1964 in Caracas, Venezuela) is an artist, painter and sculptor who has developed a very personal and precise line of work linked to Neo-Pop art. Wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Table
Located in ATLANTA, GA
George Long received his BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1995 and currently lives and works in Atlanta. His first solo exhibition was at Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta in 2004, where he introduced the widely acclaimed 8 x 8 work. Long’s solo and 2 person exhibitions include Flux Projects, Atlanta, the Zuckerman Museum, Kennesaw State University, Space Eight, St Augustine, FL, Gallery One Twelve, Atlanta, Tempus Projects, St. Augustine, FL,Cosms, Dashboard Coop, Atlanta, Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, the University of West Georgia, Carrolton, GA, the Madison County Art Council, Marshall N.C. among others. Group exhibitions have included the International Kunstler Kolonie Exhibition,Nuremburg, (and residency), The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (2007 Biennial and 2012 "Day Job: Georgia), the Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, FL, the Zuckerman Museum, Kennesaw, GA, Art on the Beltline, Atlanta, GA, Paco Sas Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Georgia, and Brenau University, Georgia. In 2010 he received an NEA grant for public sculpture. Sculpture exhibitions include theAnn Marie Sculpture Center in Solomon Island, Maryland, North River Park, Charleston, SC, and the Chattahooche Nature Center, Roswell, GA, Art in Freedom Park, Atlanta, and Bonaroo, Manchester, Ten. Long has collaborated with Spelman University choreographer T. Lang, New Orleans Airlift, Georgia Tech, Lucky Penny...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
En Partence, 2013
By Fernando MORENO
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Fernando Moreno is a Mexican artist who was born in 1983. Fernando Moreno's work has been offered at auction multiple times. Only one artwork sold; this was Untitled, which realized ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Un Peu D'eau
By Laure Krug
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Laure Krug. Contemporary French artist
Holder of a license in plastic arts, she naturally turns to sculpture.
Materials: She begins by working the soil and masters the different co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Fiberglass, Polyester, Acrylic
Adversity
By Kristofer LAMEY
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born and raised in Atlanta, Kristofer Laméy has brought much to the southeastern art and design table.
From debuting his unique design perspective in the 2007 ICFF in New York City and showcasing his Art at Aqua during the 2008 Art Basel in Miami, to his solo Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) exhibit titled “Serving Form” in 2010, Kristofer is best known for his one-off commissioned sculptural art forms. His work has found a place in homes and collections across the globe.
One of his most ambitious design challenges was solving a decades-long problem in the aviation industry: How to more efficiently design and install jet aircraft interiors. This was the birth of AIMS.
Kristofer’s work straddles a fine line that resides between art and design. Many, lost within the engineering of his creations, like to push his work out of the category of art and into the realm of design. This line is the fulcrum that leverages his work into a playing field of his own, and he is proud of that. Those looking for solutions in the marketplace that are in need of an outside perspective to differentiate a product benefit from his fresh and creative approach to modern manufacturing.
In April 2020 Kristofer moved his family to the North Georgia mountain...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Ballon YO White
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Medusa
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Uses versatility of techniques and materials to create sculptures adorned with irony and contemporary beauty in accordance with urban art. Throughout his life, he has been accompanie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Obsession de Gustave
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Jean-Louis Corby was born in 1951 and was predominantly influenced creatively by the 1970s. The 1970s were a period of consolidation and growth in the arts, most often characterised ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Three Black Lantern Flowers, 2017, Shaped aluminum with black powder coat
By Donald Sultan
Located in Atlanta, GA
Donald Sultan (Born 1951)
Three Black Lantern Flowers, 2017
Shaped Aluminum with Black Powder Coat
54 x 31 in.
Edition of 16
Aluminum is 3/16 inches (.5 cm)
Attaches to wall with 2 b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Sisters
By Kristofer LAMEY
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Multiple sculptural elements created with an irreducible aesthetic and functional form. Made from blown borosilicate glass and powder coated aircraft grade aluminum. The work has two...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Mort de fatigue
By Samuel SALCEDO
Located in ATLANTA, GA
In the work of the sculptor and painter Samuel Salcedo, it is possible to raise a deep and at the same time fun reflection on the human condition. He st...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Wood
Petit Plasir
By Laure Krug
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Laure Krug. Contemporary French artist
Holder of a license in plastic arts, she naturally turns to sculpture.
Materials: She begins by working the soil and masters the different co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Polyester, Acrylic, Resin, Fiberglass
Cheval
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in Melun in 1957, Jager is a French sculptor and painter. Passionate about equitation, he is famous for making representations of horses in plaster and bronze in all their forms. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Dijon and is currently living in France. Rather than just being an artist, he describes himself as a dreamer: unpredictable and passionate. For Frédéric JAGER, beauty is a must. His style, classic, figurative, is stunning in this world of contemporary art. Bringing bronze to life, his works always capture the energy and beauty of the horse “Because unlike men, a horse is always beautiful, always strong, always sad.”
Several large companies, such as HERMES, NINA RICCI, goldsmith MELLERIO, CHEVIGNON, SOCIETE GENERALE, HORSE WOOD, watches PEQUIGNET, SWEATERIE, have called upon him for sculptures, decorative objects, advertising works, or trophies for the races.
He has had numerous solo exhibitions, and has also participated in a myraid of art fairs such as the ‘Salon International de Saumur’, the Animal Sculpture Biennale of Rambouillet, the Derby Horse in Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
STILL ALIVE
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Found Objects
Ballon
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Bicicleta mediana
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Gerardo Fernandez South American Artist set of 10 bronze stick bugs with iron antennas. Some bugs have circles on their feet in order to make an art ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
untitle
By Patrizio MOSCARDELLI
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Patrizio Moscardelli born in Ripatransone (A.P.) in 1959 actively participates in the national life of art, obtaining recognition and acclaim in various competitions from the most qu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Foam, Polyurethane
Sull'abisso dell'eternita, 2011
By Hugo Rivas
Located in ATLANTA, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.”
Ugo Riva is probably the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Iron
Contorsionniste XXIII N2/8
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Boxeur Nain, 2014
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Hormiga n°2 con cereza
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Gerardo Fernandez South American Artist set of 10 bronze stick bugs with iron antennas. Some bugs have circles on their feet in order to make an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ballon YO Red
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Iron
La gatta assise
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Grande Contorsionniste V
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Gold Leaf
Striped Head #2
By Jane Jaskevich
Located in ATLANTA, GA
An Atlanta Journal Constitution reviewer once said ” Jane creates dreams in stone”. My stone sculptures are mystical in nature.The art reflects the coexistence of the conscious and s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Chaotic Life of a Cock Fight Feather
Located in ATLANTA, GA
With each feather, Alan Derrick has moved his art form into new expressions. He continues to experiment with each stage of the process, producing surprisi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
White Spiral
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Louis Durot was born in Paris on April 22, 1939. He was something of an enfant terrible, and managed to be expelled from various schools for bad conduct. His ambition, as stated to his parents, was to earn money without having to work, and for a time, he was an “escort-boy” for a Parisian Grande Dame. He did, however, manage to get a good education in spite of himself, and received his Baccalaureate degree from Lycee Louis Pasteur in 1956.
In 1960, he enrolled in the Facultie de Sciences, where he studied mathematics. He terminated his math studies in 1963, and turned his attention to engineering, working for Equipel, where he was responsible for calculating and measuring resistance for prototype nuclear generators. Equipel became a research facility, and offered Durot the opportunity to study organic chemistry.
Durot directed numerous research projects for Equipel between 1966 and 1972. During this time, in fact, starting in 1964, he made many friends in the art world, gathering together artists from a variety of disciplines to form an artists commune — the Freelane Studio. Among the members were jazz journalist Gilles Brinnon, and a young painter, Jean Ihallero — a friend of the painter Maxime Defert.
Through them, he met the artist Francois Arnal, who was interested in Durots’ engineering expertise for his sculptures. They got on well, and worked together for two years. Also in this circle were the actress Micheline Presle and the actor Daniel Gelin. In 1968, Arnal and Presle created Le Festival de Theatre de Chateauvallon, and through this, Durot became friends with the noted film director Ulysse Reynaud.
In 1966, Francois Arnal introduced Durot to the artist Cesar, with the idea that Durot’s talents as a chemical engineer would be useful. Durot spent a year helping Cesar to master the techniques of working with polyurethane foam, with Durot searching for ways to make this fragile and ephemeral substance more stable and permanent, and more amenable to control. Cesars’ first works in this medium were flat, due to the difficulty of controlling the foam, but he went on to create his famous “expansions”.
In 1968, Durot conceived a project to create more three-dimensional sculptures following a simple and precise design. It was during this time that Durot made his first polyurethane sculptures — the Champignons and Plantes Carnivores. Also in 1968, he He opened his first technical studio at 35, rue Leon.
In order to support this new endeavor,( he needed more space, equipment, time and money), he created La Societe Durgalith. 1971 saw the Durat’s first works exhibited at the Salon Batimat in Paris. With this exhibition, Durot was hoping to attract the attention of architects with whom he could collaborate.
Between 1971 and 1974, Durot created sixty sculptures inspired by fantastical “alien” life, mushrooms, and carnivorous plants. In 1974, Durot”s Societie Durgalith ran into problems with the Italian firm that owned Batimat. Credit Lyonnaise seized his studio and many of his sculptures, and quite a number of them were destroyed. This same year, Durot worked with the architects Sloan and Lecouter on an inflatable structure for the Pavillion Franaise in Osaka. Unfortunately, the project was never realized.
Durot continued to pursue his research on polyurethanes, and gained world-wide recognition for his developments in this field. In 1977, a “student prank” had un-expectedly bad consequences. Durot was employed as an engineer at L’Usine Francaise de la Monnaie (the French mint) in Pessac. He took three kilos of “blanks”, and used them for playing slot-machines. For this, he spent seven weeks in jail, which was ended by an amnesty granted by Mitterand in 1981. During Durot’s time in prison, he took up weight-lifting, and also designed his next generation of sculptures. The spirals, feet, lips, and a series of erotic chairs...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Sculptures
Materials
Polyurethane
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