The French sculptor Arson
Presents his sculpture to you
"The Plank Tree"
Novelty
A prophetic work by the committed sculptor Arson
This Friday 21/07/2023, a monumental sculpture was inaugurated at the Town Hall of Bouchet, created by the contemporary French sculptor,Arson, now Bousquetain. This sculpture, called"plank tree"was inspired by what he sees of the violent impact of man on nature in order to derive maximum benefit from it.
Arson, an artist without taboos
Inhabited by the idea that he has that artists of all disciplines, are the testimony of their time and at the risk of displeasing or shocking, he offers through this contemporary sculpture, a reflection on our greedy capitalist world, without moral values or spirituality.
For the French sculptor, art and sculpture in particular are the legacy that artists will leave over time, bearing witness to the best trace of man.
His sculptural work has evolved over the years and, after a period he describes as"surreal" (see his sculpture "Muslim" or his creation "the telephone"), he goes through a pop art and colorful period with the "Esculmaux" or "the Sweets" to speak only of these buttock sculptures, which would be pure provocations, clean to reflect on the hypocritical and unspoken taboos that persist in today's society.
A sculpture facing the environmental emergency
Instead of settling down over the years, the sculptor is angry. He says he suffers from seeing millions of hectares of trees burning like in Canada or Siberia, in France and all over the world uncontrollable fires, or millions of hectares of forests cut down like in the Amazon… without discernment or respect. Unfortunately, it's not just trees, it's seas and oceans, rivers and polluted land, increasingly overexploited.
For the artist, with a personal spirituality, which distinguishes global warming from the outrageous exploitation of the earth, we have destroyed what was a paradise and, after this, will come hell. Both, therefore, were indeed on earth and not in heaven.
It is not a sculptor or a few other artists who will be enough to reverse the infernal machine and green the world, it is his means of expression and this sculpture"plank tree" is not just a contemporary sculpture, nor a pile of scrap metal, it is the artistic testimony of a man sculptor of today.
L'arbre à planche
Imagine the unimaginable:
a denatured tree
The sculpture “The plank tree” bears witness to astrong awareness by the artist of the impact of man on nature.
While it is a powerful symbol of life and renewal, the tree transforms into a utilitarian structure in this contemporary sculpture.
this sculpture, “The plank tree” is a work that carriesa crucial warningabout our relationship with nature. A sculpture that I created with passion and conviction, the sculpture of a tree in denatured iron, a powerful representation of the fragility of nature, in the face of our frantic quest for profits. »
"The Plank Tree" in the end, a fully assumed contemporary sculpture, was designed to be cut with the least possible human intervention and without embellishment: the trunk will make beams, the branches planks or cleats. No leaves, no fruit: you have tooptimize and make profitable.
The square steel shape of the “Plank Tree” sculpture evokesaalarming distortion, a warning to remind us that nature, our source of life, is precious and fragile. If we continue to neglect and exploit it without regard, we risk breaking this sacred bond that unites us to it.
“When the last tree is felled,
the last poisonous river,
the last fish caught
then the pale face will realize that money cannot be eaten. »
Sitting Bull, Sioux Native American Chief
