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Clément Sculptor

Memory in the earth

Clément Sculpteur, born in Besançon in 1943, has been questioning memory, trace and material ever since he was a child marked by stories of the nearby Nazi camps. His first sculpture – a skull and crossbones in raw clay – was born of the shock of these revelations. Very early on, he turned his attention to powerful, moving sculpture, exploring the themes of the Shoah, the body, disappearance and ageing.

Human frailty

the passage of time and collective memory

Clément Sculpteur’s works in raw clay or manganese clay are compressed, cracked and marked in their flesh. They don’t seek aesthetics, but the naked truth: that of bruised, petrified bodies, bearers of memory. In both his installations and his more recent sculptures, inspired by medieval “transis”, Clément Sculpteur questions human fragility, the passage of time and collective memory. A sculptor of pain and silence, he gives form to the unspeakable. His work is an uncompromising, deeply humanist testimony.

Works

Works in public collections Fonds national d’art contemporain, Fonds d’art contemporain de la Seine-Saint-Denis, Fonds départemental d’art contemporain (Île de la Réunion), Galerie Nationale de Prague (Czech Republic), Musée Yacinthe Rigaud (Donation Me Rey, Perpignan (66)), Conservatoire du funéraire (former Tournai mortuary, Belgium) – Works acquired by local authorities Towns of Aubervilliers (93), Drancy (93), La Bastide Rouairoux (81), Gardannes (13), Creil (60), Villejuif (94), Centre Régional d’art contemporain, Château du Tremblay (89) – Works in private collections France, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, U.S.A.

Contact

Workshop address: 174 ter rue du château 50400 Granville clement.sculpteur@yahoo.fr Tel. 06 73 87 48 29 clement-sculpteur.fr

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