Roland Saurel

Confirmed artist

France

11 works

Roland Saurel's first sculptures represent people linked, welded together, united in a carnal and sensual representation all in roundness. Fully united, with the right amount of abstraction so that the form is sufficiently stripped of "frills", without denaturing the human race.

His most recent sculptures, thanks to the emptiness left by the abstraction, thanks to the shadow they project, push the interpretation of each one to recompose the space.

My artistic approach is to create for example subjects by representing only one leg to each person to lighten the base without visually upsetting the whole. To create an optical illusion by changing the heads of my characters when one turns around my sculptures. Or to not put as many limbs or heads as there are characters! All this without the observer being destabilized!

1997 to 2004:
- Student at the school of applied arts of the city of Lyon (courses under the direction of José Silva Da Fonseca sculptor) in category modeling and sculpture. During this period, various summer courses in stone sculpture with José Silva Da Fonseca.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

2021:

- Imag'In Gallery 14 rue des Pierres Plantées 69001 Lyon.

2019:

- "Romantic fantasies", HUIT'YV Gallery 8 Cours Lafayette 69003 Lyon.

2018:

- "Thus enters the light", Maison de Pays, Mornant.

2015:

- "Sculptures", Atelier Partagé, Vienne.

- "Sculptures", Capitainerie des Roches, Condrieu.

- "Sculptures", Charterhouse of Sainte-Croix-en-Jarez.

2011: