Edition in bronze, cast in the lost wax process, chased by hand and patinated.

Daniel Giraud (1972)

The fact that the human body is the main motif of sculptural work is a commonplace that has been valid since the beginnings of art. It also applies to many of Daniel Giraud's works. However, the artist does not only want to depict him; his sculptures are, as he says, influenced by the ideas of the French philosopher Michel Foucault. And so Giraud shows the human body and the human face as a complex (de)construction, as subject and object at the same time, shaped and deformed, always in search of clear identity. His work "Ruin" quotes the father of modern sculpture, Auguste Rodin: "If there is anything more beautiful than a beautiful thing, it is its ruin" - an object, therefore, that is clearly inscribed with time and thus its inevitable traces.