YVES PORTENIER

After years of drawing and painting, Yves Portenier developed a passion for stone. He sculpts, mainly marble, but not exclusively. Rough stone with a soft touch. Or bringing out the roughness of the material, to express the hard side of a particular work, or to highlight certain contrasts, always shaped by stone and light. Each stroke, each edge and each finish brings more life to the stone.  His work today focuses on subjects that touch him, always revolving around the human, what it expresses, symbolises, induces... emotions, transmitted through a hand, a part of the body, or more symbolic, even conceptual representations.