Shops in Montpezat-sous-Bauzon, Ardèche

Opening : All year round.

I'm a quiet little guy, a kind of anarchist, a kind of paranoid artbrutist, funny and tender!
In my cheerfully disorganised studio, I create lamps, sculptures and characters from recycled objects.

At the beginning, there are the finds. Years of building sites, wandering around disused sites, metal salvage shops, attics and pavements (I'm quite happy with that, but shame on you for not taking the time to go to the waste disposal centre!)

These materials and pieces accumulate in my universe, some of them having been there for years waiting to be assembled into a new creation. My aim is to give a second life to objects that are often destined for the rubbish bin. I like things that have lived, forgotten objects that I save by resuscitating them. It's like thumbing my nose at over-consumption...

It's by taking things apart and dissecting them that I find these diabolically pareidolic little pieces!
Treasures await me inside our scraps!
My work is all about finesse, and all my assemblies are screwed, bolted, fastened, riveted or crimped, but there's no glue or soldering involved.
For the pleasure of the eye, the poetry, the humour that will, I hope, bring smiles.... so rare in these gloomy times.
Let's be serious, let's stay lit!

Ps I'm often asked this... pareidolia is the art of seeing faces everywhere, in clouds, rocks etc... for me, it's in all these rooms that I discover looks...