Thibault Hazelzet Laocoon « petite guerrière »
Price on request
Unique
2023
Patinated Bronze, Patinated Steel, Glazed Ceramic, Light Fittings
40 x 50 x 30 cm
15.7 x 19.7 x 11.8 in
Thibault Hazelzet’s Laocoon light series comprises bronze artworks that re-appropriate techniques from his previous work in ceramics and jewellery. Bronze components of each model are cast via the lost-wax bronze casting method, which can capture minute details in the final mould. Hazelzet uses old cameo engravings to imprint their designs in relief.
Enameled ceramic pieces are combined with the bronze, allying the two materials and making each piece unique. The artist is always searching for strong contrasts in his work, with these pieces varying between a ‘barbarian classicism’ and a ‘civilised vandalism.’ References to antiquity are evident throughout the artworks, displayed as structures verging on ruins.
Location: France
Artist
Thibault Hazelzet
Thibault Hazelzet is an experimental French artist whose practice spans sculpture, photography, painting and jewellery. With works that are instinctive, poetic and grounded in a deep respect for materials with prior lives, Hazelzet describes his visual language as delicate brutalism – a play of raw materiality and formal finesse, where abstraction meets figuration.
