Nothing destined him to become an expert of the 18the century, he who grew up in an environment very far from culture. However, from the Palace of Versailles to private mansions, from classrooms to museum reserves, the schedule of François Gilles, 29, is today finely crafted around this golden age of ornamental sculpture. It all started with a chance encounter with drawing around the age of 10, while going to consult a speech therapist on her street in Nantes, who covered the walls of her office with portraits she had made of her patients. Struck by her drawing talent, he asks her if she can teach him: she will then welcome him, between two meetings, three or four times a week.
At 14, this unusual training is his baggage to escape high school. Because the schoolboy is bored “prodigiously” during lessons, preferring to read at the back of the class. He sought training related to drawing and discovered the existence of the Ecole Boulle, in Paris, where he entered through an art professions course. There, it is the charm of the wood sculpture workshop, filled with plasters and anatomy models, which captures his curiosity: he prides himself on learning how to move from drawing to volume, and begins to make his scales with copies of models from the 16the they have XVIIIe century.
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