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Un travail qui parle de la religion comme vecteur de manipulation avec ses dérives autoritaires.
Un travail qui évoque les violences faites aux femmes, un sujet récurrent... :
Biography :
Graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Angers in 1994.
Antoine Culcasi was born in 1953. He first developed an artistic production essentially devoted to bronze volumes around portraits from nature, the expression of the human body and animal themes:
-Exhibition "Animality, body, spirit" (2010):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yhUZXUCiJw
A master foundryman, he then created a lost-wax bronze foundry company. A family heritage which allows him to blend his own works and those of other artists.
He has devoted himself exclusively to his artistic production since 2010.
After initially abandoning painting deemed "too destructive" for him,
he returned to pictorial production following a journey on the way to Compostela.
Mystical and spiritual questioning about life:
Exhibitions (2008/(2016)):
- "Attraction": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcEIEzs73HM</div>
A work which speaks of religion as a vector of manipulation with its authoritarian excesses.
His work is authentic and uncompromising and makes sense with his perception of contemporary political life.
- 2019- He responds to an order for 25 painted and sculpted works on the imposed subject of the stoning of Saint Emerance for Art et Chapelles: "The Stoning of Saint Emerance": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =8RfSOsTuwfI
A work that evokes violence against women, a recurring subject...:
A work on twinning, in particular on his deceased twin Antonin.
He engages in a dialogue with the missing brother in a series of a dozen paintings: https://youtu.be/qg8RckbOaGMIl
He plays with icons from art history through religious work on the pietà, where he inverts religious representations such as a female Christ.
His commitment as an artist leads Antoine Culcasi towards societal subjects such as migration with "Dérives" a work inspired by the work of Géricault "the raft of the Medusa" a monumental work 7 meters wide by 5 meters high :
exhibition "Dérives" (2021) https://www.instagram.com/p/CikAFLxjAf3/?hl=fr
Violence against women and animals. suffering, recurring themes in his journey as an angry artist which resonate in his latest works:
- (2022) "Territories" A triptych of 3 canvases of 320x180 each:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2HjNqQH6KgIl
He deepens his social and political reflection, questions his condition as an artist in relation to the world in a work illustrated by the exhibition "Zoones", which deals with the propensity of man and animal to appropriate a territory. . :
Zoonés exhibition (2022). a set of sculptures and canvases of exceptional dimensions: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CnfdcMxKltQ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
The pictorial and sculptural experience through the art foundry, the same essence!