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DENIS ROUSSEAU PLASTICIAN PROFILE

Graduation

  • Bachelor in basketwork and weaving
  • Graduated from l’École des Beaux-Arts (Fine Arts) de Lyon
  • Holding a Master in Specialized Education
  • Essentially a self-made man who has invented high-end unique techniques in ceramics and bronze sculptures.

Main creations

Plane tapistries using personal patterns then put in 3D forms by rolling-up sisal on a structure made of aluminium and wool. Ceramics financed by State funds ordered by architects for halls and lobbies buildings.
  • Large decorative panels :
    - Le Saint-Denis Building in Bron
    - Masséna Park – Lyon
Local & federal state orders :
  • 32 M2 enamelled stonewear & glass panel for the Hector Berlioz College in Communay
  • Melted stonewear & glass panel for the City School in Chaponnay
  • Melted stonewear & glass panel for the Army General Staff in the Military Fort of Vincennes
  • Melted stonewear & glass panel for the National Center of Zoological Research Fountain in Jouy-en-Josas

Corporate orders :

  • Emblem letters for COMPAREX in Nanterre
  • Parc Moulin à Vent Situation Map
Many bronze sculptures on the dance and music themes that are sold to collectors in France, in Europe, in the USA and exhibited in my workshop in Lyon.

Artistic approach

Mastering sketching, basketry, weaving, sculpture, ceramics I have based my entire approach to strive for new horizons that my hands would make possible. All my creations aim at giving volume and expression, to make alive a movement albeit fixed in a material.

For the past 40 years, I have specialized myself in figuring-out dance and music instruments. Working in close collaboration with the Opera & Ballet House in Lyon as well as schools of dance I have learned to understand and decode style figures, steps and attitudes. I represent them with exactitude as well as with the permanent objective of changing the way we look at things, evocating movements and sounds so that my creations seem to be about to move or to play.

Each piece of work is carefully prepared, carved-out from a wax shell in which all the sub-elements are melted. I then assemble them using techniques which I have invented and elaborated by myself. Each piece is unique, signed and comes together with a certificate of authenticity.

Very often, my creations mix-up materials such as bronze, glass, wood and slate.