Thierry Martenon. De la nature à l'oeuvre : le bois. Afrique its historical and social contexts

its historical and social contexts

and the language of myths is transformed

Chapter 1: Invocations to the Muse

More than ninety works: furniture and objects in ceramics

Un ouvrage complet : un essai rédigé par Angela Lampe

Thierry Martenon. De la nature à l'oeuvre : le bois. Afrique its historical and social contextsThierry Martenon sculpts venerable woods from the surrounding forests: ash, maple, spruce. In his hands, this noble material becomes a work of art, a true receptacle for light. It is indeed the light, in the roughness of the wood, which plays with the voids and solids, trickles along the sandblasted veins, leveling the ridges and ends, to the point that each of his pieces seems to breathe alive, always. Thierry Martenon is a sculptor. He lives in the