Petite Tomate – Yann Faisant

Description

Yann Faisant, born in Paris in 1960, is a bronze sculptor and a video artist. He has been interested for many years in plant life and mixes sculpture, video and photography in his installations.Studying nature and making visible the sensitive part of fruits, reproducing in an artistic perspective, this is Yann Faisant’s role. He has associated a specific technical knowledge and a poetic imagination always in motion.

Form and substance come together and the use of bronze, in its most primitive way, staging the simplest aspects of life.

On boxes, pedestals, plates, the fruits stand but never freeze, so many vanities placed in the garden of Hesperides where fruit at the center waits to be selected and tasted, not as an object of conflict but of pleasure, then the bronze becomes a living object of desire.

However, the careful observer will see that, here and there, withering already appear and the fruit, too ripe, stains and bends under its own weight. Decomposition is already there, leaving its stamp on Faisants’ work. Create brings the work to its end, its decay, but subsequently the fruit returns to the earth in an eternal renewal.