Sculpture, as an artistic form, is a powerful song with a cosmic view. The song is born from silence, created in solitude, and separated from the outside world, which in order to bring the artwork into reality.
“Anatomy of A Creative Path” was a summary and retrospect of the sculpture works created by the French female artist VAL (the signature of Valérie Goutard) over last two decades. Through the interpretation of the creative trajectory of the artist, who became well-known after she entered Asia, the exhibition sought to explore the inner sentiment of works and appreciate the experience of the cultural exchange between the West and the East.
VAL was born in France in 1967 and spent her youth years shuttling between South America, Africa, Europe, and France. Later, she went to work in the marketing field as an ordinary white-collar in Paris. While her artistic career as a sculptor was started from an occasional visit to her artist friend’s studio, where she touched the clay for the first time and discovered its infinite possibilities – without the use of any working tools other than hands to offer a straightforward expression, which drove her to re-examine her pure heart. For VAL, this incident led to a career transition and determined her attitude to be seriously engaged in the sculptural creation.
In her first two years of artistic career, VAL learned from an artist in Paris. Through tireless hard work and good comprehension, she finally acquired confidence in the creation. The exploration of her soul, together with the fresh experience of practicing sculptures offered VAL the most significant possibilities to create freely afterward.
The relationship between human and its surroundings was VAL’s favorite subject – human and nature, human and society as well as human and themselves, which derived from the artist’s traveling, life, and creative experiences. As an outstanding artist, she constantly searched for the solutions to different kinds of problems facing the humankind and strove to give her answers.
In the work Attraction II, VAL outlined several cross-shaped and interlinked arcs in the use of bronze. The light lines look like cosmic radio waves as if detached from the heaviness of the texture, while symbolizing human’s states in different times and spaces. At the same time, the different spaces move close to each other because of the mutually attractive characters inside each space, which represents the relationship in which people become attractive and tolerant to each other in the process of interaction. Thus a new space of coexistence is formed.
VAL’s works have the characteristics of using lines to draw different times and spaces to present different human conditions. Although the human figures in the works are void of specific facial expressions, we could read its states by seeing the variously-shaped bodies. VAL was very good at grasping and freezing transient moments through the sensitivity and delicacy shown by the texture of bronze with its rare property, which was also considered as one of the charms of her works.
In “Anatomy of A Creative Path,” VAL expected to share what she had seen and thought, and further to exchange and discuss more possibilities of art.
Sculpture, as an artistic form, is a powerful song with a cosmic view. The song is born from silence, created in solitude, and separated from the outside world, which in order to bring the artwork into reality.
“Anatomy of A Creative Path” was a summary and retrospect of the sculpture works created by the French female artist VAL (the signature of Valérie Goutard) over last two decades. Through the interpretation of the creative trajectory of the artist, who became well-known after she entered Asia, the exhibition sought to explore the inner sentiment of works and appreciate the experience of the cultural exchange between the West and the East.
VAL was born in France in 1967 and spent her youth years shuttling between South America, Africa, Europe, and France. Later, she went to work in the marketing field as an ordinary white-collar in Paris. While her artistic career as a sculptor was started from an occasional visit to her artist friend’s studio, where she touched the clay for the first time and discovered its infinite possibilities – without the use of any working tools other than hands to offer a straightforward expression, which drove her to re-examine her pure heart. For VAL, this incident led to a career transition and determined her attitude to be seriously engaged in the sculptural creation.
In her first two years of artistic career, VAL learned from an artist in Paris. Through tireless hard work and good comprehension, she finally acquired confidence in the creation. The exploration of her soul, together with the fresh experience of practicing sculptures offered VAL the most significant possibilities to create freely afterward.
The relationship between human and its surroundings was VAL’s favorite subject – human and nature, human and society as well as human and themselves, which derived from the artist’s traveling, life, and creative experiences. As an outstanding artist, she constantly searched for the solutions to different kinds of problems facing the humankind and strove to give her answers.
In the work Attraction II, VAL outlined several cross-shaped and interlinked arcs in the use of bronze. The light lines look like cosmic radio waves as if detached from the heaviness of the texture, while symbolizing human’s states in different times and spaces. At the same time, the different spaces move close to each other because of the mutually attractive characters inside each space, which represents the relationship in which people become attractive and tolerant to each other in the process of interaction. Thus a new space of coexistence is formed.
VAL’s works have the characteristics of using lines to draw different times and spaces to present different human conditions. Although the human figures in the works are void of specific facial expressions, we could read its states by seeing the variously-shaped bodies. VAL was very good at grasping and freezing transient moments through the sensitivity and delicacy shown by the texture of bronze with its rare property, which was also considered as one of the charms of her works.
In “Anatomy of A Creative Path,” VAL expected to share what she had seen and thought, and further to exchange and discuss more possibilities of art.
