Large Sculpture Jeune Femme 64 Cm, Solid wood, By Michel Bonnand

Direct-cut sculpture on cherry wood, depicting a young woman with her legs bent.
Signed Michel Bonnard and dated 1974. Sculptor born in 1935 and active in Châtillon / Loire.
Exhibitions in Paris and many other provincial cities, as well as internationally.
Good condition
Dimensions : Height : 64cm Depth : 32 x 22 cm

Price: €1,200

Michel Bonnand's sculptures - sensitive curves

Michel Bonnand's hand follows the nervous movement of an arm, the curve of a back, rectifies a delicate dimple. In the silence of the studio, bathed in afternoon light, he draws confessions from a walnut tree, from an olive tree he borrows contortions, while lime or boxwood whisper other inspired compositions. And the murmur of hamadryads faithfully accompanies him.
To their whispers, their speeches, sometimes their complaints, the sculptor responds: the dry, matt sound of the mallet on the chisel, the tenuous crumpling of shavings falling to the ground. Then there are the smells of wood and varnish, the warmth of sanded wood. And then there's the masterly yet demanding stone, which the artist sometimes likes to caress and sculpt.
When these noises fade, silence envelops a whole people of wood escaped from the artist's imagination and sensibility: dreamy women, trusting children, gentle embraces, pillars of Life... All these beings sketching mischievous smiles, questioning glances, and like slow gestures...

Michel Bonnand's sculptures
Carving wood, close to the work to be born, that is the way the sculptor discovers the spirit of matter.
Enough for him to merge with this matter, to let himself guide intuitively, and the work outside shows the idea inside.
When this matter is wood, living material "parexcellence", when one can breathe its odor and listen to its complaint, no doubt that one can hear the Muses who are living there. The vocation of MichelBonnand was born rom the seduction of these hamadryades!

BIOGRAPHY
Michel BONNAND, born December 30, 1935 in Crosne (Essonne), graduated from the École Nationale des Métiers d'Art (stained glass workshop) and studied with painter Aujame and sculptor Charpentier-Mio.

- 1954 - Leaves for Lorraine to assist master glassmaker Gaudin in restoring the stained-glass windows of Metz Cathedral, and sets up his own workshop in Moselle, which he runs until 1970.
- 1966 - Wins the national competition for the erection of the Trois-Guerres commemorative monument in Bitche and discovers sculpture, which he adds to stained glass and painting in his means of expression.
- 1968 - First solo exhibition, in Luxembourg.
- 1973 - Jean Minet notices him and opens his galleries in Paris, Place Beauvau and Rue de Miromesnil, as well as in Vichy.
- 1974 to 2015 - Solo exhibitions throughout France,Metz, Rouen, Clermont-Ferrand, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Lille,Strasbourg, Noirmoutier, Vichy, Honfleur, Colmar, Béthune,Chantilly, Sens, Barbizon, Nimes, La Rochère, etc. and abroad,Òsaka, Tòkyò.
- At the same time, Les Chantiers du Cardinal in Paris asked him to design the fittings and decoration of new places of worship in the Paris region, in Créteil, Evry, Antony, Chennevières, Chaville, Bonnelles, etc., where he created sculptures, stained-glass windows, altars, tabernacles, altarpieces...

Group exhibitions
- Polychrome sculptures", Espace Cardin, Paris
- Paul Louis Weller" prize, Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris
- Contemporary Sculptors", Musée de Blois, France
- Biennales des Gemmistes de France in Tours and Lourdes
- Les Cimaises du Ciel" exhibition, Sacré-Coeur Basilica, Paris
- Touring exhibition in Japan with the group
"A la recherche de demain l'École de Paris" group.
- Exhibition "Around Chapelain-Midy" Château du Croc Chécy, France
- Exhibition "Les Nouveaux Romantiques" Paris
- Exhibition "Les Peintres de Loire" Bourbon-Lancy
- Exhibition "Sculpteurs d'aujourd'hui" Péronne
- Salon européen d'Art contemporain", Saint-Brisson-sur-Loire

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