At the end of the Arts Fair, the organizers counted the 400 ballots placed in the ballot box by the public throughout the week. The painting prize was awarded to Dominique Savignard and the sculpture prize to Olivier Goupil for his works using recycled copper wire. An unexpected material, which the artist works with after having started by sculpting stone and wood.
He patiently twists very fine threads and winds them on top of each other. The wires grow to become a trunk and branches, giving life to trees that look like bonsai or which are suspended to let all their branches and roots vibrate with the slightest breath of air.
How do you go from wood and stone to copper wire? “The idea came to me one day, while I was still at architecture school, and we were given the task of creating a work using material recovered from the building, explains Olivier Goupil. I found a rod of copper wire on a farm under construction that reminded me of a branch. » Since then, Olivier Goupil has been creating trees and has the somewhat crazy project of creating an entire forest.
