Khachkar Mémoriel (2023) Sculpture by Nicolas Bouriot (KRB1)

I work with the idea in mind of being only a relay between the material that I recover (I like that a hand has already worked on the wood or the stone that I am going to sculpt) and the idea hidden within it. I therefore strive to put touches of light on the image that imposes itself in such a burnt beam or such a broken stone. I try, like shamans and druids, to capture what sleeps in these pieces of life now abandoned.
That's why I only work by hand, in direct contact with the material, because as an autodidact, I give myself the obligation to follow her, to listen to her more than to force her, in order to let her teach me.
My encounter with Armenian art is also , quite logical: jaded with Romanesque and Celtic art because of all the druids, initiates and other Templars who roam around these symbols, I discovered thanks to an order the Armenian crosses and the khatchkars; and the more I was interested in it, the more I was delighted to finally find a truly sacred AND popular art, that is to say living. My encounter with the Armenian culture reinforced me even more in my conviction that there was a truth there as to the relationship between Art and the divine, and that the glorification of Life that is the Armenian cross is more than the symbol, the realization.

So this is my journey, at least its first lengths: what led me to sculpt and become myself, alive and happy to be.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1974
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• Groups: Contemporary French Artists