Meetings and demonstrations with the ornamentalist sculptor François Gilles

Name: Encuentros-demostraciones con el escultor ornamental François Gilles
Start: 2022-09-17T11:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Musée Zadkine

Echoing the years of training in ornamental sculpture that Zadkine received during his youth, the museum invites the public to a meeting with the decorative sculptor François Gilles.

Sábado 17 septiembre 2022, 11:30, 13:30, 15:00, 16:30Passed

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Meetings and demonstrations with the ornamentalist sculptor François Gilles

Echoing the years of training in ornamental sculpture that Ossip Zadkine received during his youth, the museum invites the public to a meeting with the ornamental sculptor François Gilles.

The latter will highlight the various technical aspects of Zadkine’s work to give another reading. To make discover the sculptor’s profession in all its richness, its purpose will be based on demonstrations of wood cutting and a contextual setting of the techniques explained.

François Gilles, sculptor

François Gilles is both an ornamentalist sculptor and art historian. Best apprentice in France and graduate of the Ecole Boulle, he is also a former student normalian of the ENS Cachan, associate and PhD student in art history.
His studio is located in Yonne, where he works for restoration and restitution projects for historical monuments such as the Palace of Versailles. He also collaborates for contemporary decoration projects where he implements the different facets of the sculptor’s know-how.
More information: www.françois-gilles.com

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

At the Zadkine Museum, 100 bis rue d'Assas, Paris 6è

Saturday, September 17, 2022
At 11.30am - 1.30pm - 3pm and 4.30pm - duration of each meeting - demonstration: 1h
All public, free, upon registration on the online ticketing Paris museums here

About the location

Musée Zadkine

100 bis rue d'Assas 75006 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

Just a stone’s throw from the Jardin du Luxembourg and Montparnasse, the Zadkine museum, a place of memory and charm, is dedicated to the work of the Russian-born sculptor Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967), a master of direct pruning and a major figure at the École de Paris. The house, and the studio that houses it, were the place of life and creation of the artist from 1928 to 1967\. Nestled in the greenery of its garden populated with sculptures, the museum was renovated on the occasion of its thirty years close to the spirit of workshop, which it is one of the last places to witness. The presentation of his collections, rethought around the question of matter, makes dialogue under the light of glass, plaster, earth, wood and stones. Two steps away from Montparnasse where Modigliani, Cendrars, Henry Miller and many others crossed paths, this place dedicated to one of the major representatives of the School of Paris, is an enclave with Slavic accents to (re)discover. On the occasion of the Eu