Antoine Brodin

His story

Antoine Brodin was born in 1980.

He was the 2017 winner of the Fondation Ateliers d’art de France Artwork Award, for which he received a grant for the creation of *MIGRATION*, a monumental glass sculpture shaped like a skeletal boat and measuring 4.5 meters in length.

2016 Nominated for the “Grand Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris”

2015 Nominated for the “Talent de l’Audace” award at “Les Talents du Luxe et de la Création”

2015 Winner of the Fondation Banque Populaire Artisanat d’Art award

2011 Finalist for the “L’Intelligence de la Main” award from the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller

Creation process

Antoine Brodin shapes glass as a
medium bridging worlds. Playing with the solid and
viscous nature inherent to glass as a material, as well as with cultural symbols, his
work seems to continually return to themes of impermanence and
memory, straddling the boundaries between craftsmanship and contemporary art.
Technique has its say, takes on its full meaning, and supports the
intent conceptually. The idea always overlaps with it.
He
experiments and sets constraints. But above all, he creates paintings.
He creates narrative situations, moments, stories, images and sensations, dreams.

He uses signs and symbols as a universal language to explore our relationship to the Self, to others, and to the space that connects them.

Each work, each series, is born in this vibrant in-between, at the boundary of the tangible and the ineffable, where matter becomes memory and sculpted silence.