Sébastien Touret
Sébastien Touret is a French artist born in 1950, he lives and works in Blois. With his father, the sculptor Jean Touret (1916-2004), he learned drawing and sculpture.
He sculpts wood, embosses and incises metal—mainly copper and zinc, where female forms are depicted. Sometimes, he likes to cast small sculptures in bronze. He also paints landscapes and characters with gouache or acrylic.
His practice as a sculptor is predicated on removing from tree trunks, the medium he most often uses, what it takes to make a silhouette emerge from the raw material. These steady and earnest characters coming out from his hands are alike to presences that accompany and question about time and silence.
With Jean Touret, he created the monumental bronze altar of Notre-Dame-de-Paris in 1981, then alone, the layout and ornamentation of many churches and chapels: statues, altars, ambos, tabernacles.
