Produced by Perrotin, 2024
Candle snuffer
Mirror-polished bronze, lost wax casting
25 x 6 x 6 cm | 9.8 x 2 x 2 in
Limited edition of 35 + 3AP + 3SP
Comes with CoA signed and numbered
Made on occasion of the exhibition Exonaut Horizon at Perrotin gallery, Paris, 2024
About the artist:
Jean-Marie Appriou takes control of sculptural materials—aluminum, bronze, glass, clay, wax—to envisage fantastical worlds inhabited by human, animal and vegetal figures. Through their skillfully constructed scale, his often imposing works nevertheless maintain an intimate relationship with the viewer, as if to better communicate their disturbing strangeness.
Deeply dreamlike, Appriou’s material universe is imbued with telluric concerns approached from an original perspective: that of the legendary. Horses, snakes, locusts, sharks and seahorses compose a bestiary charged with powerful symbolism. They evolve in a dream realm, a marvelous natural world that becomes a theater of striking characters. Sowers, gatherers, beekeepers and Japanese Ama divers—all represent figures of passage and transformation. The transition between elements—from the aquatic to the aerial, from the underground to the terrestrial—is one of the central themes of the artist's work.