Caroline Brisset French, b. 1988
"I handle metal seeking to reveal its own energy. I heat it, hammer it, twist it. I try to make it say something by itself."
Born in 1988, Caroline Brisset has worked with steel since the age of fourteen.
A sculptor, she describes herself first as a metalworker: she heats, hammers, cuts and welds until the material says the opposite of what it is. In her hands, steel becomes stitching, lace, almost fabric.
Two gestures define her work: spot welding, which runs through the volumes like a visible seam, and sublimation, which pierces the metal until it turns to lace.
Her pieces, almost all unique, range from small sculptures to monumental installations.
A Talent French Artist for 16 Years of Steel
Monumental Realizations & Expos in Europe
Trained at the European School of Art of Brittany in Rennes (DNAP then DNSEP), Caroline Brisset also holds a vocational qualification in locksmithing and metalwork, with a specialisation in ironwork. This dual training, artistic and artisanal, explains her freedom with the material: she designs and makes everything herself, from sketch to weld.
Her subject is the body and movement, but also memory and fragility. She looks for the point where the appearance of the material contradicts its nature: steel that seems light, a sheet that seems to breathe.
Monumental works and commissions:
- 2021: "The Cloud Kisser", a monumental portrait of the aviator Roland Garros, over six metres, in stainless steel, Roland-Garros stadium, Paris
- 2019: "Blue Whale Heart", a life-size blue whale's heart in steel and reclaimed waste
- 2018: "Le Poilu", four metres, stainless steel and bullets, for the centenary of the 1918 armistice, permanently installed in Liège, Belgium
- 2018: Camille trophies presented to Ennio Morricone, International Sound and Film Music Festival, Croatia
- 2018: figurehead for the sailing yacht "Death Shadow"
- 2013: permanent sculpture installation for the Imagine building, Paris
Selected exhibitions:
- 2022: Affordable Art Fair, Brussels; "Horizon", group exhibition, Art Thema, Brussels
- 2021: Art Up! Lille; exhibition in tribute to René Julien, Ramatuelle; "Together", "Blooming" and "Timeless", Art Thema, Brussels
- 2020: "Vagabond", online solo exhibition, Art Thema
- 2018: Montreux Art Biennial, Switzerland
- 2017: "Like a Picture", solo exhibition, Art Thema, Brussels
- 2016: "Solar System", solo exhibition, Art Thema, Brussels; Lasne Art Biennial, Belgium
- 2015: Révélations Biennial, Grand Palais, Paris; "Under the Skin", solo exhibition, Art Thema, Brussels; Art Élysée fair, Paris
- 2013: Nantes Biennial
Art Thema supported Caroline Brisset's early career and devoted several solo exhibitions to her work. The gallery now presents her work on request and can accompany a bespoke project, from an indoor sculpture to a monumental piece.
A project, a place, an idea? Tell us about it: Caroline Brisset takes on bespoke commissions, and we guide you from the first sketch to the installation.
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Between Us
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Big fish
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Calling Birds
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Closer
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Digital Apero
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Distant
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Drawing an escape
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Fancy
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Hope
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Library
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Making Noise
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Planet Table
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Queing
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Romance
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Shopping
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Sweet Escape
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The Accordionist
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Together
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Zen Library
