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Jean-Louis Landraud

Nice, France
Artist (Sculpture)
Born 1956

Born in 1956 in Nice, Jean-Louis LANDRAUD is self-taught. His bronzes have a figurative base, but he plays on the fraction of the bodies, on the voids, giving them a great lightness which contrasts with the material. This "call for air" pulls us upwards, in a dreamlike approach that makes the invisible almost palpable and tangible. Beauty here combines presence and absence, expressing the complementarity of bodies oscillating between the material and the summer.
The sculpture of Jean-Louis LANDRAUD is lyrical above all and preaches, while playing on the vertigo of the senses , for perfect happiness of the senses (Nice morning 0/26/99)

"For me the dream is the door open to creation: it therefore seems essential to me for an Artist to be able dream. But certain painful events in life make us lose our part of the dream. A major open-heart procedure in 2007 pushed me into the world of suffering; my ability to dream was impaired; I then thought it was extinct.
Several months passed like this... Then came the time for the cherries. A few cherries to look at placed there on my workshop table... the simplicity and purity of this fruit suddenly fills me with emotion: its so warm “red” color, which evokes blood, fragile and ephemeral life like that of time cherries, its pure forms which follow the curves of the human body. Cherries bringing renewal and spring... Cherries to eat, not out of hunger but out of greed, just for pleasure... Slowly, very slowly, and thanks to the Cherries the dream reinvests my life.
That's why I decided to make cherries “my” symbol of Life: present in all my new creations, today I make them my second signature.

Jean-Louis LANDRAUD ( May 2009)

"To me, Dream is the open door to CREATION: Dreaming then, becomes essential for an artist.
However, paintful events in life can shut off the part of dreams inside us.
A heavy open-heart surgery in 2007 turned my life into a world of suffering. My dreaming ability was affected. I thought it was forever turned off. Months went on this way...
And came cherry blossom time. A few cherries laying on my workshop desk to look at... the simplicity and purity of this fruit suddenly filled me up with all kind of emotion: its “red” color, so worm, recalling blood, a fragile life fleeting like the cherry blossoms, its shapes so pure following the human being curves...
Cherries bringing springtide...cherries to eat not for hunger but for greed, for pleasure only...
Slowly, very slowly, thanks to the cherries, Dream reinvested my life again.
This is why I choose the cherries to become “my” symbol of “Life”: a part of all my new creations from now on, I make it my second signature. .."

Jean-Louis LANDRAUD (May 2009)

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Pour moi le rêve est la porte ouverte sur la création : il me paraît donc essentiel pour un Artiste[...]
Pour moi le rêve est la porte ouverte sur la création : il me paraît donc essentiel pour un Artiste de pouvoir rêver. Mais certains évènements douloureux de la vie nous font perdre notre part de rêve. Une lourde intervention à cœur ouvert en 2007 m’a fait basculer dans le monde de la souffrance ; ma capacité à rêver s’en est trouvée altérée ; je la crus alors éteinte.
Plusieurs mois s’écoulèrent ainsi … Puis vint le temps des cerises. Quelques cerises à regarder posées là sur ma table d’atelier… la simplicité et la pureté de ce fruit me remplissent soudain d’émotion : sa couleur « rouge » si chaude, qui évoque le sang, la vie fragile et éphémère comme celle du temps des cerises, ses formes si pures qui empruntent les courbes du corps humain. Des cerises porteuses de renouveau et de printemps … Des cerises à manger, non par faim mais par gourmandise, rien que pour le plaisir…Lentement, très lentement, et grâce aux Cerises le rêve réinvestit ma vie.
C’est pourquoi j’ai décidé de faire des cerises « mon » symbole de Vie : présentes dans toutes mes nouvelles créations, j’en fais aujourd’hui ma seconde signature.

Jean-Louis LANDRAUD (Mai 2009)
To me, Dream is the open door to CREATION : Dreaming then, becomes essential for an artist.
However, paintful events in life can shut off the part of dream inside us.
A heavy open-heart surgery in 2007 turned my life into a world of suffering. My dreaming ability was affected. I thought it was forever turned off. Months went on this way...
And came cherry blossom time. A few cherries laying on my workshop desk to look at... the simplicity and purity of this fruit suddenly filled me up with all kind of emotion : its « red » color, so worm, recalling blood, a fragile life fleeting like the cherry blossoms, its shapes so pure following the human being curves...
Cherries bringing springtide...cherries to eat not for hunger but for greed, for pleasure only...
Slowly, very slowly, thanks to the cherries, Dream reinvested my life again.
This is why I choose the cherries to become « my » symbol of « Life » : a part of all my new creations from now on, I make it my second signature...

Jean-Louis LANDRAUD (May 2009)
Sculpture titled "La Paix" by Jean-Louis Landraud, Original Artwork
La Paix - Sculpture ©2016 by Jean-Louis Landraud -
"La Paix"

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Sculpture titled "Gaïa" by Jean-Louis Landraud, Original Artwork
Gaïa - Sculpture ©2016 by Jean-Louis Landraud -
"Gaïa"

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Sculpture titled "Légereté de l'être" by Jean-Louis Landraud, Original Artwork
Légereté de l'être - Sculpture ©2009 by Jean-Louis Landraud -
"Légereté de l'être"

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Sculpture titled "Cerises russes (3 C…" by Jean-Louis Landraud, Original Artwork
Cerises russes (3 Cerises) - Sculpture ©2008 by Jean-Louis Landraud -
"Cerises russes (3 Cerises)"

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Sculpture titled "Ma Dame de la bauma…" by Jean-Louis Landraud, Original Artwork
Ma Dame de la bauma fresca - Sculpture, 57.1x15.8 in ©2009 by Jean-Louis Landraud -
"Ma Dame de la bauma fresca"

Sculpture | 57.1x15.8 in

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Sculpture titled "Le Baiser" by Jean-Louis Landraud, Original Artwork
Le Baiser - Sculpture ©2016 by Jean-Louis Landraud -
"Le Baiser"

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Sculpture titled "Le Jongleur aux cer…" by Jean-Louis Landraud, Original Artwork
Le Jongleur aux cerises - Sculpture ©2009 by Jean-Louis Landraud -
"Le Jongleur aux cerises"

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Sculpture titled "XXL" by Jean-Louis Landraud, Original Artwork
XXL - Sculpture, 9.1x7.9 in ©2009 by Jean-Louis Landraud -
"XXL"

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Sculpture titled "De la cerise au pap…" by Jean-Louis Landraud, Original Artwork
De la cerise au papillon - Sculpture ©2010 by Jean-Louis Landraud -
"De la cerise au papillon"

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Sculpture titled "La Muse" by Jean-Louis Landraud, Original Artwork
La Muse - Sculpture ©2016 by Jean-Louis Landraud -
"La Muse"

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Sculpture titled "Cerise à l'enfant" by Jean-Louis Landraud, Original Artwork
Cerise à l'enfant - Sculpture ©2009 by Jean-Louis Landraud -
"Cerise à l'enfant"

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Sculpture titled "Chloé" by Jean-Louis Landraud, Original Artwork
Chloé - Sculpture, 7.9x5.9 in ©2016 by Jean-Louis Landraud -
"Chloé"

Sculpture | 7.9x5.9 in

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Sculpture titled "Dites le Avec des F…" by Jean-Louis Landraud, Original Artwork
Dites le Avec des Fleurs - Sculpture ©2016 by Jean-Louis Landraud -
"Dites le Avec des Fleurs"

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Sculpture titled "Cerises russes (4 c…" by Jean-Louis Landraud, Original Artwork
Cerises russes (4 cerises) - Sculpture ©2009 by Jean-Louis Landraud -
"Cerises russes (4 cerises)"

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