artist/ Bénédicte Dubart

France

The insolence of contemporary figurative art is the hallmark of Bénédicte Dubart’s bronze work. Going against the trend of conceptual discourse, she likes her sculptures to speak for themselves. They are pure emotion.
Insolent too, to the point of taking the figure beyond the natural laws of gravity, while mastering the power of gesture. Bare-handed, uninhibited, her work brings feelings to their climax. She has chosen the path of the great masters who preceded her in the strength of movement and the energy of the wholeness.

Powerful or full of sensuality, her modelling is confident. Each sculpture exudes a powerful inner impulse.
Sublimating the feeling at its center, vibrant with symbolism, where momentum and weightlessness lift and liberate bodies, Bénédicte Dubart superimposes a work of pure lines on a smooth, coiled form.
Profoundly autobiographical, each work draws its essence from a moment in life that has troubled or fulfilled her. The work then imposes itself as a truism, knocking at the artist’s memory until it releases the original clay from the damp cloth.
Her favorite time of day: “between dogs and wolves”, when the fading daylight grazes the bodies of her models with its frizzling light, revealing volumes in soft shadows.
But she knows how to free herself from the constraints of reality, and her strength lies much more in evocation than in the detail, so unimportant to her. With a sure hand, she frees the figure from its classical straitjacket, for her perpetual quest for life is found in the great planes of light and shadow and the originality of her themes.