Thierry Martenon. De la nature à l'oeuvre : le bois. Afrique Un ouvrage complet : un

Un ouvrage complet : un essai rédigé par Angela Lampe

its historical and social contexts

ces figures à tête humaine surmontant un support aniconique

and the language of myths is transformed

Thierry Martenon. De la nature à l'oeuvre : le bois. Afrique Un ouvrage complet : unThierry Martenon sculpts venerable woods from the surrounding forests: ash, maple, spruce. In his hands, this noble material becomes a work of art, a true receptacle for light. It is indeed the light, in the roughness of the wood, which plays with the voids and solids, trickles along the sandblasted veins, leveling the ridges and ends, to the point that each of his pieces seems to breathe alive, always. Thierry Martenon is a sculptor. He lives in the