Passionate about light, volume and colors, the French artist Louise de Gastines creates supernatural ceramic sculptures.
From a base, the artist conjures up intriguing silhouettes from a parallel world. His work explores the links between myth and matter, between reality and imagination. Her work is an invitation to contemplation, a dialogue between past and present, between the sensible and the absolute, the tangible and the invisible.
Her approach is based on the exploration of the human and animal body, shaping its textures and polishing the bare earth to an almost organic sheen. Color plays a central role in her process; working with the three primary colors, she composes a unique palette of vitreous enamels. Applied in vibrant strokes, they amplify the intensity and expressiveness of her sculptures, giving them a vibrant and sensory dimension.
His works reinterpret ancient and modern aesthetic codes, merging the legacy of classicism, symbolism, Art Nouveau, and surrealism. Each sculpture oscillates between rigor and strangeness, between grace and mystery . Their classical beauty is disrupted by unreal compositions, where forms seem to mutate, evoking chimeras, timeless faces, or diverted fragments of anatomy. These creations, both poetic and philosophical, become symbolic objects, capturing an emotion and a moment outside of time.
Her current project invokes myth, memory, and materiality. By immersing herself in the ancient legend of the Pleiades, she begins a broader reflection on the links between the cosmos and humanity. Through this series of sculptures, in which each piece embodies a stellar sister, she seeks to convey not only their singularity, but also the timeless echo of these figures of the collective imagination. Her work seems to follow a natural trajectory that, while anchoring matter in reality, aspires to touch the invisible, eternity.
As a child, she evolved among her grandmother's miniature trinkets, her grandfather's architectural plans, and her uncle's paintings. Since the 2000s, Louise de Gastines has been fully committed to art, driven by an early fascination with form and color. She has shaped her vision and expertise through a series of significant encounters. Her internships with Kuntzel & Deygas, Sylvie Lapidouse, and Niki de Saint Phalle immersed her in unique visual worlds, sharpened her approach, and led her to join a model-making and prototyping workshop, where she perfected her mastery of textures, color, and airbrushing. Initially an apprentice, she continued her training by joining the Industrial Design section of the Greta de la Création, du Design et des Métiers d'Art in Paris.
Fueled by self-taught work and a wide variety of professional experiences, she found clay sculpture an inexhaustible avenue of exploration. This material, both organic and technical, invites her to push her limits and balance her intuition and her high standards. Today, guided by inner images and intuitive documentation, she sculpts, glazes, and fires her pieces in her studio, immersed in nature.
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