Chantal De SUTTER
Chantal De Sutter was born Chantal De Block in 1959, in Etterbeek (Brussels).
At a young age, Chantal De Block met Robert De Sutter, himself the son and grandson of artists who would become her husband. With him, she learned sculpture and developed a passion for the discipline. With him, she ran a lost-wax art foundry where they both worked, rubbing shoulders with numerous sculptors and academic professors. Twenty years later, she decided to devote herself exclusively to her own works.
The artist works under her birth name, mainly modeling children in bronze and ceramics, while married to De Sutter she sculpts striking women with slender silhouettes, sometimes in bronze painted in brilliant colors.
His daughters Lyvie and Sara were immersed in their parents' creative enterprise, to the point of also choosing sculpture as their profession and means of expression; in fact, the entire De Sutter family collectively received the Cultural Merit of Rebeck (Belgium) in 2008.
Chantal De Sutter's bronze women, whether they measure 20 or 175 centimeters, invite the gaze of the amateur to gain height as they are slender and slender, their legs infinite and their slender neck at the top of which appears a fine face in the form of an exclamation point, haughty, mischievous, joyful or questioning but always very expressive.
At first glance, De Sutter seems to have modeled in 3D sketches by masters of haute couture: postures, hand positions, movement imprinted on the clothes invite the collector to dream of their ideal fashion show.
Contemplating so many details, one feels the intensity and meticulousness of the work necessary to obtain them before casting.
