Henri Igl\u00e9sis is a contemporary artist of Catalan origin, inventor of the blown sheet metal process\u2026 He was born in 1964 in Perpignan, his grandfather was a blacksmith and his father, a turner-toolmaker.<\/p>\n
In 2008, this boilermaker became a sculptor, by the surprising invention of a process that would become his trademark: blown sheet metal.<\/p>\n
The figure of his father, a turner-fitter, was certainly decisive in the artistic development of the young boy. Henri Igl\u00e9sis spent his childhood in the workshop of this craftsman whom he loved and admired with fervor. \u201cDon\u2019t touch anything, watch and you will learn\u201d he would tell him quietly\u2026 From then on, it is easier to understand Henri\u2019s passion for manual work and metals, which he would rub shoulders with all his life and from which he would draw his art.<\/p>\n
Henri Igl\u00e9sis finished his schooling in 1981, after a double diploma in “boilermaker, sheet metal” and “welder”, and worked in a manufacturing workshop without further delay. He continued to regularly attend his father’s workshop, in which he made several objects in sheet metal worked with a hammer.<\/p>\n
It was in 2008, during the creation of a statue in the image of his son, that he came up with the idea of \u200b\u200binjecting air into a piece of sheet metal that had been welded beforehand.<\/p>\n
The majority of his works are sculptures shaped by inflation. This original shaping process, which he refined and developed, is now officially registered, and the expression “blown sheet metal” is copyrighted.<\/p>\n
It is therefore through this unique technique that the artist’s whimsical creativity unfolds, allowing his overflowing imagination and mischievous humor to take concrete form. His refined works are imbued with a characteristic lightness: visual lightness, mixing the weight of patinated metal with the suppleness of air; but above all the lightness of a dreamlike, colorful, carefree world, into which Henri Igl\u00e9sis draws us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":103171,"template":"","taxo_year_participe":[136],"class_list":["post-103170","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n