Pierre de Grauw, sculptor
"Pierre de Grauw is some kind of demiurge.
His hands shape the actors of a drama playing on the stage of human destiny. His sculptures embody man as he struggles, suffers and hopes. Inspiration is indeed biblical and determinant. But its source can equally be found in the quotidian and the contemporary.
To Pierre de Grauw, the sacred is simply the sublimated looking glass of the profane where the great existantial questions are posed."
Michèle Lefrançois
Cultural Heritage Curator
Museum of the 30's
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
"Pierre de Grauw's art is religious art, not for the world of believers and the orthodox, but for a world without God, a world that asks: 'So where is he then, your God?' This is what shows his worth and his perennial topicality."
François Boespflug
Professor of Comparative History of Religions
Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg, France
"His work is silent, that is to say when looking at each of his sculptures one feels a sensation of instropection and meditation dominates the spirit of his creation. Shapes themselves remain mute, scarcely etched, conceived by the artist to contain within, a modest and restrained message about man, beyond things sacred and profane."
Valérie Da Costa
Lecturer in Contemporary Art History
arc Bloch University, Strasbourg, France
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