Laëtitia Bontems struggles to define herself as an “artist”. For fear of “passing for an imaginative”. So she takes refuge behind the term “glass craftsman”. “At least it’s a sign of seriousness. There is a technique behind it all. And then, later, if I can, then I can claim to be an artist. “
Without being ashamed, however, the young woman was able to place her works on the pedestals of the back to school sculpture event: “Faubourg en Tête de dell’arte”. A 9And edition of this event that allows you to sow art between the gates of Craffe and the Citadel, to give volume to passers-by.
A volume at times figurative, which sees the gorilla provoke the rhinoceros under the eye of a giant steel spider, or a dog made of recycled wood. Sometimes even more abstract and even totemic.
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The blue of the ocean in their flesh
The event this year is taken up by two “stars” of sculpture, Jean No and Gé Pellini. Who wanted to make some changes. “Trying to invite artists from outside the region, which is not easy, because exhibitors may hesitate to load a truck with their pieces for just two days of exhibition. “Some sculptors come from Brittany, from Drôme, from the Loire, from Liege even in Belgium. “And then we wanted to make some space for those who start. “
Including Laëtitia, who today emancipates herself a little from her family origins, having in particular a grandfather master glassmaker in Daum. “So I was immersed in glass and crystal throughout my childhood. But now it is an organic and mixed sculpture that comes out of his studio. Including marine objects that carry the blue of the ocean in their flesh. “With the desire to compare this glass, sometimes a little too smooth, with other materials. Marble, volcanic rock … “
Francis Fey opted for wood. calcined. Black. Fallen by the storm. Openwork with gold leaf windows, or colliding with stainless steel and steel. “As if to point out three levels of conscience: the wooden root for the primitive conscience, the steel cube for the rational and finally the perfect stainless steel sphere for our spiritual conscience, which is yet to come. “
He, in any case, realized. At 67 years old. That he could be an artist. “Oh, that word, it bothers me a little. But it is true that I have had it in me forever. And it took me until retirement to afford it. Because art, well, he had it in his head …
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