Edouard Martinet Sculptures

Edouard Martinet is one more artist of the found, so to speak. Click on his home page, and read: "The work represented on this site consists of metal sculptures created using found materials which are fixed without welding. Edouard carefully selects his raw materials found in brocantes (yard sales) and junk yards. The finished pieces achieving a life of their own."

Found materials fixed without welding. Once again, the playful heart of a junk-inspired artist revealed! Who else would have such an appreciation for the parts of his art that he would actually hesitate to make the connection too permanent? And yet, the works themselves seem so complete that you can barely distinguish the components. Barely is key, here. Because in getting a hint of the junkly origins of his art, the viewer experiences the ingenuity and playfulness of the work, and finds herself everso much more in awe of the artist's ability to capture the living essence of his subjects, birds and insects, frogs and fish, in junk.





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