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Sébastien Lasportes, an artist of Gers origin, is exhibiting his metal sculptures at the Campanaire Art Museum until December 7. A journey of expressions between fauna, flora and abstract art, forged from recycled materials.
Sébastien Lasportes is with Lise Dufaur-Mourens the guest of honor at the 23rd Salon des Muses d’Europe at the Campanaire Art Museum of L’Isle-Jourdain. Of Gers origin, he has been passionate about metal and ironwork since his childhood. He studied welding mechanic with blacksmithing option at the Mirandais high school in Valentees.
Later, he joined the Muller TP company and traveled across France on highway construction sites as a welding mechanic. Then, for more family stability, he returned to the Gers and bought an abandoned farm. He transformed it into an organic market garden for 22 years, without forgetting his passion for metal.
In the evening, as an outlet, he taps, forges, welds, grinds pieces of sheet metal or old agricultural tools, to give them life in the form of sculptures. However, he did not forget his dream, to become a sculptor.
Beauty in waste
At the dawn of fifty, he made the decision to stop market gardening and devote himself exclusively to his art. He became a metal sculptor. Inspired by flora and fauna, mystical beings and abstract art, he highlights a movement, an emotion in his works. As an example of the animals he creates, their gaze or their posture underlines an attitude which seems banal, but which characterizes their natural instinct. His creations are made from used materials, on the one hand for an environmental act and on the other to demonstrate that there can be a form of beauty with imagination in waste.
He quickly sold his works to individuals. He gets spotted. At the end of 2020, he made his first exhibition at the Fontenilles media library, then at the Amap festival on the theme “Our farmers have talent”. In 2021, he was chosen to exhibit in a gallery during the Jazz in Marciac festival. In two years, the won over public named him winner of the public prize twice: once in September 2022 at Art Expo Colomiers, then, in May 2023, at the third Sémé’Art biennial in Séméac. Today, his work is listed thanks to Maison Drouot.
His works can be discovered at the Salon until December 7. Open from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. from Tuesday to Saturday and Sunday December 1st.
