Aurélien Gallet de Courtois
Plastic sculptor
Cannes, France
The silent architect of human emotion
- Aurélien maintains total discipline with regard to his material choice, only ever using LEGO® pieces
- He makes temples, totems and door-shaped triptych sculptures
- He defines himself as a copyist, a transcriber of an inner language
In Cannes, Aurélien Gallet de Courtois creates tall, complex and unsettling pieces born from a single material: the LEGO® brick. This medium, often seen as playful or nostalgic, has become a demanding practice in his hands, able to create an expressive language that blends memory, spirituality and architecture. Since childhood, moving between construction and destruction, Aurélien has developed an intuitive practice, without plans or sketches. "When I create, I am guided by a mystical logic," he explains. Another streak of discipline comes from his exclusive use of white blocks. "White gradually yellows over time, and this subtle variety in the colouring becomes a form of beauty," he says. His work recounts an intimate quest for meaning through repetition, constraint and daily discipline.
INTERVIEW
It is not a choice motivated by aesthetics, but rather a discipline, almost a belief. The constraint of the material imposes limits on me, and it is precisely within those limits that I find an infinite field of creative and narrative possibilities.
White is never fixed. Over time, the bricks yellow, taking on an ivory hue. What might be seen as a flaw becomes, in my eyes, a trace of time passing, a living and sincere form of beauty.
I start without a drawing, without precise measurements. I sit down in front of my pieces, sorted by category, and I build by instinct, with a kind of mystical logic. The shapes appear to me as I go. I seem to know where to find each piece without even looking.
My work is the direct reflection of my anxiety, an almost existential dread I experience. Every finished sculpture leaves a blank page behind it, and I remain at my table, waiting for the next spark. I never force it.
Aurélien Gallet de Courtois
Plastic sculptor
Cannes, France
ADDRESS
Address upon request, Cannes, France
AVAILABILITY
By appointment only
LANGUAGES
French, English
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