Steve CHAUDANSON
HIS UNIVERSE
Although the excellence of his metalwork in terms of fittings and decoration has long won over a large regional clientele, Steve CHAUDANSON has only been in Drôme since 2011. Born in 1976 in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, he lived for 16 years in Africa, notably in Benin, where his father worked in drinking water drilling.
He began his professional career as a technician in metallurgy. Passionate and ambitious, he quickly perfected his skills and mastered all the tricks of the trade. It was only natural that he founded his first company at the age of 27.
Over time, Steve lets his creativity and his passion for Art speak.
In 2011, he began creating and marketing decorative metal objects.
In 2009 he made his entry into the contemporary artistic world with his first sculpture signed SC: La Panthère.
Steve Chaudanson's works use the thick and thin lines of their structure to capture the eye and the light.
HIS ARTISTIC VISION
Between humanity and bestiality, the volumes take on body, life and warmth, before merging into graphic objects.
Colorful and elegant, massive and refined, Steve Chaudanson's metal sculptures carry their lines into the contemporary artistic and aesthetic universe.
Driven by technological mastery and high-precision metallurgical know-how, his works are the result of an irresistible desire to make people dream.
Today, he enjoys creating works of art based on his desire, but also on demand. He uses the latest technologies, such as 3D imaging, to design and conceive his works, which are sometimes of extraordinary size.
ITS ECOLOGICAL COMMITMENT
Steve Chaudanson is a sponsor of the actions carried out by Ecocean for the protection of aquatic ecosystems.
Hippocampe is the first work in the Marine range, created to help promote Ecocean's current and future ideas and projects.
For each marine work sold, a contribution is made to the protection of biodiversity in the aquatic environment.
The Wild Moment
Originally from Lyon, François Bel is a multifaceted artist. Equally at ease in painting, sculpture, or installation, his work and inspirations are eclectic. Inspired by Street Art, from which he borrows the system of repetition and variation. The artist is equally interested in so-called "new realism" movements, in which he identifies, such as Dada or Pop Art, which divert everyday objects to better criticize today's consumer society, like Duchamp's ready-mades.
Working alternately with nylon thread for his suspensions and iron wire for his sculptures, François Bel reappropriates each material. Playing on the idea of compartmentalization, by enclosing some of his sculptures in wire mesh, the artist once again denounces contemporary society, both in its individualism and its materialism. Thus, each medium serves an approach that is both artistic and philosophical.
His small "Big Bangs" embedded in acrylic glass, as if frozen in the ultimate moment of grace of the explosion, question us about the passing of time, consuming itself and undeniably outliving us. In a society where everything is moving faster and faster, and where man controls many things, the artist François Bel crystallizes everyone's dream, stopping time for a moment in his works.
Mixing frustration and fascination, his sculptures reflect our civilization, our anger and our imprisoned, cloistered revolts in economic, cultural, social and political contexts.
