Thierry Martenon. De la nature à l'oeuvre : le bois. Afrique More than ninety works: furniture

More than ninety works: furniture and objects in ceramics

its historical and social contexts

from the 4th millennium BC to the very beginning of Christianity

Totalement indépendantes ou esquisses préparatoires de sculptures en gestation

The chapters discuss a range of different objects and practices – from museum objects taken from South Sudan in the context of enslavement and colonialism in the twentieth and twentieth centuries to efforts by South Sudanese to preserve their country's cultural heritage during recent conflicts

Thierry Martenon. De la nature à l'oeuvre : le bois. Afrique More than ninety works: furnitureThierry Martenon sculpts venerable woods from the surrounding forests: ash, maple, spruce. In his hands, this noble material becomes a work of art, a true receptacle for light. It is indeed the light, in the roughness of the wood, which plays with the voids and solids, trickles along the sandblasted veins, leveling the ridges and ends, to the point that each of his pieces seems to breathe alive, always. Thierry Martenon is a sculptor. He lives in the