Orleans avant-garde artist Benoit Vieulet in a modern way revives the craft, which has existed for several millennia.
Shiny metal, fantastic figures, hard manual work ... Benoit Vieble from metal and papier-mâché creates lamps and sculptures that can be viewed endlessly. The avant-garde artist combines banality and exclusivity, life and art in his creations. In addition to metal and paper, he often uses materials such as horn and wood for his vintage installations: in his opinion, they optimally emphasize the connection between the past and the present.
In childhood, Benoit often visited with the artist's grandmother and the blacksmith's grandfather, a copper craftsman. It was they who opened to him the attractiveness of a world filled with creativity. Most of all the boy was interested in work on copper, which, in fact, remained unchanged for 10 thousand years. Here, forging, casting, chasing, engraving, and embossing still reigned.
But the French artist created his own, different from others, technique of processing classical metal. He began making lamps and installations combining copper and figures from papier-mâché and glass "drops." Fantasy Benoit Vieuble knows no bounds. Hares balancing on a rope in the spotlight, deer in evening dresses, dancing rat-ballerinas in front of miniature mirrors.
In 1997, Benoit Vieulet founded his own atelier, and now in it he forms the frames of figures, installations and lamps from tin and wire. Then Benoit puts on these frames many layers in a special way the molded paper pulp, carefully works out the details and especially the "faces", and after drying the paper pulp paints sculptures.
And this is truly art - recognized by many, not only in France, and bought up by collectors with a view to the future.
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Photo: Benoît Vieubled
Material prepared by Elena Karpova
