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Alban Lanore is born in Paris in 1966. He works and live in Touraine, away from the artistic world. He develops there, in total freedom, his art practice apart from art movements. Travels and encounters gave him the vocation of sculpture. He considers himself as an autodidact sculptor.
After conceiving sets for attraction parks, he created alongside his wife, Nanou Grimault († 2016) a vegetal decoration company that led them to travel around the world.
In 1998, a journey in Gabon changed their lives, both on an artistic and an ethical level. Amazed by the beauty and richness of the forests, Alban drew inspiration from another way of creation. After Gabon, it was the Amazon jungle, especially forest concessions, that he often prospected in order to collect only the falls.
Important encounters punctuated Alban Lanore's sculptor background. The first one was Jean-Jacques Popille, well-known among the art brut amateurs, that he met as a teenager. He then met Frans Krajcberg, an ardent defender of nature preservation alongside Pierre Restany, author of the "Manifeste du Naturalisme Intégral’’ manifesto, who encouraged him in his path. He eventually met Vincent Batbedat who brought him to a constructed art practice.
To talk about sculpture is easy, you just need to describe it. By describing it, we discover the person behind the sculpture. Actually, did he made it with his strength, with what he is physically, but mostly with what is in his mind, with his way to read the reality – a reality that is as much interior as exterior.
Alban Lanore’s sculpture is about the application of human strength on the carnal softness of the wood, about the application of the decision of the rapidity of the stool on the silent dream and the internal slowness of the organic material. Alban Lanore is associating two natures: the abstraction and rationality of a straight mind that finds his expression in the sharpness of still, and the radicality of metal on the imaginative nature similar to the melancholic softness but secretly resolved of the wood. In his practice, those two states are expressed by opposition and not by conciliation, creating therefore an aesthetic of constrast. The secret design of wood suffers the flat forms and angles imposed by the sculptor. He is shaped inside by the forms and nevertheless beyond those interruptions, those brutal changes, beyond those neat angles, it continues its original course.
Alban Lanore is tall, strong and certainly brave. In front of his work, his tastes that create his sculptures, and the opposition of those two aspects, he stays free because he assumes completely his choices in terms of shapes and material.
And his freedom is beautiful to see!
Jean Anguera - Sculptor
