Who am I?
I sculpt in my workshop located in Saint-Etienne in La Loire and in my workshop located in Lantriac in Haute-Loire.
All my sculptures are entirely made by me.
I primarily work with Bronze and Steel and I create a lace of metal, thanks to a technique I developed.
All my sculptures are unique pieces and come with their certificate of authenticity.
I work regularly on commission, public or private.
You can contact me to have your own bust made or that of a person of your choice, or you can ask me for a personal composition based on an existing model.
If you pass through Saint-Etienne or Lantriac, feel free to come meet me and I will show you my workshop. (Contact me beforehand to make an appointment.)
I invite you to visit my website: philippe-buil.com
All the sculptures for sale on this site are displayed in my workshops and are therefore available.
Artistic approach of Philippe BUIL sculptor:
Talking about Dripping in sculpture without falling into a flow of paint on a three-dimensional support seems to be a challenge. An action and a project that seem to be a matter of a challenge or a bet.
But upon close observation, Philippe melts the metal and it drips to give a random shape. The participation of the whole body is present and not just the intellect. Thus, the paradox can be glimpsed, one feels the curtain rising and a solution to this alternative is revealed.
Dripping, as Jackson Pollock cherished it, is an access to an unconscious memory, buried corporeally, archetypal. An evanescent divine chance brought to light and form.
The classic or abstract internalized projection, then in the sand, frozen in the space of the mold, receives by fusion, liquefaction, the drops one after the other. The loss of control and access to another dimension are the key words of the discourse, of a communication between the sculpture and the sculptor.
Alchemy is not far: "ora et labora". The emerald tablet says: "you will separate the subtle from the thick with great ingenuity... it rises from the earth to the sky, and again it descends to the earth, and receives the strength of things from above and below."
The hollows and the bumps, the emptiness and the fullness, the accidents create a play between light and shadow. This lace is a suggestive creation that calls upon the idyllic, chimerical, archetypal, or obscure, dark history of each individual. A personal story regenerates, recomposing the work. It reinvents its own story like an alluvium carried by the current of the river, of life. It transforms in an infinitesimal or radical way, the individual I of the creator and the spectator into a newly revisited one.
'Our personal history, real or narrated cognitive memories, is reconstructed with every frozen drop of eternity. But through our eyes, the lace becomes soluble in our personal story, which is endless, unlike the tales whose endings we know. Even death, though unavoidable, will not have the final say over our personal stories told in intimacy or in the open.'
"This acquired and specific property of never having an end and the power to take a new detour at every second, is the source of individual freedom. All cognitive stories reworked is the means of reconstructing one's world, our world."
Gnostics and agnostics come together like opposites converge. In this forest of real, idyllic, archetypal stories, consciously or unconsciously constructed, the creative role of each, stimulated by the gaze and emotion of a work to be completed, grows towards a reclaimed individual freedom.
The sculptural Dripping can then come to life and inspire other creatives in this voice of inventive spirit.
