Happy animals

"Capturing life and movement in matter, celebrating form, perpetuating the ephemeral... If this is the work of a sculptor, Yvan Baudoin unquestionably belongs to this brotherhood. With gestures that are restrained, powerful and caressing, Yvan draws out of his gangue of stone, granite or marble the palpitation of a secret life whose sensuality and harmony he has sensed. He also knows how to breathe new life into objects made of metal or wood, dispossessed relics that he warms with a lover's fervour. Finally, he dares the test of fire, to which he victoriously delivers his earthen or bronze children. In his anxiety and enthusiasm, this tender fighter has now tamed a whole bestiary that speaks to us, moves us and makes us dream of a happy animality."