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Sophie Barut
The art of sculpture: lost wax bronze. Sophie Barut offers us an art full of delicacy and tenderness. His sculptures are an invitation to contemplation and wonder at the small things of each moment that remind us of the fragility of life and the urgent need to not grasp. Interior designer for 18 years, passionate about sculpture and modeling since always, it was in 2018 that the big turning point took place: from her workshop in Caluires in the Rhône, Sophie Barut is now fully dedicated to her passion. Bronze became her favorite material: based on her original clay works, she worked in partnership with a foundry who made bronze molds and prints, using the lost-wax technique, a long process that has hardly changed since Rodin. Her atypical life path (her husband had a head injury 8 months after her marriage) is not foreign to the recurring themes encountered in her work: childhood, the delicate balance of life, friendship, love, love, the small inner path, the ode to life.
Inspirations
Women artists: Camille Claudel, Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Vivian Maier. Her family, childhood, the fragility of life, disability.
Values
“Make visible the soul, fragility, that little inner bird that urges us to be daring.” Unveil the vital force hidden in everyone's heart.
Products
His sculptures, whether of children or animals, are as many an invitation to interiority, to silence, to the joy of the present moment.
I knew the artist before the woman I can say, having recently read her book testimonial on her life as a couple and as a family, confronted with her husband's disability. A moving book that made this small sculpture, acquired a few years ago, even more dear to me, thanks to a hard-earned bonus. She was so proud when she arrived. I even gave him a first name: Heloise. It is very small, has a discreet presence but everything is in this discretion: it is there and there, with a palpable density for those who know how to contemplate it.
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