Sylvie Mangaud
Born in 1961 in Paris and drawing on her background in photography and the study of signs (graphology, morphology), Sylvie Mangaud translates the analysis of the line into the three-dimensionality of bronze. Her work is an exegesis of movement, in which the body is no longer merely an anatomical subject, but a pure emotional language. The artist captures the moment to freeze it in a dreamlike verticality.
Sylvie Mangaud’s work transcends the aesthetics of mere grace to explore the resilience of the human condition. The artist treats the body as a hieroglyph of the will. Here, the radical elongation of the limbs is no longer a quest for lightness, but a forward thrust and an architecture of effort. Bronze, through its immutable density, seals this life force: that of the human being who strives, who leaps, and who persists.
The universality of Mangaud’s work lies in the anonymity of her smooth faces. By erasing individual features, she elevates her sculptures to archetypes: they are no longer portraits, but a mirror of humanity in perpetual striving.
Born in France
EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2019
Paris Art Design, Les Tuileries, Paris, France
2018
Art Élysées, Paris, France
2015
A Gallery- Brussels, Belgium
Géraldine Banier Gallery
Estades Relais Châteaux Gallery
Hôtel du Castelet
Bastide Capelongue
2014
Géraldine Banier Gallery - Paris, France
A Gallery- Paris, France
Estades Gallery - Paris / Lyon / Toulon, France
Daum Shop. Private exhibition
2009 – 2013
Antibes Art Fair – Antibes, France
Hegoa Gallery – Paris, France
Gallery 34 Bonaparte – Paris, France
Château des Vigiers – Bergerac, France
Hôtel du Castellet – Var, France
Ebène Macassar – Paris 7e, France
Cohérance – Paris 7e, France
GMAC – Chatou, France
Salon de Garches – Garches, France
Espace Carpeaux – Levallois, France
Salon ABC prix de Saumur – Neuilly sur Seine, France
La Galerie – Tourgeville, France
Art Paris - Grand Palais - Paris, France
Géraldine Banier Gallery - Paris, France
A Gallery- Paris, France
Estades Gallery - Lyon, France
Espace 117 - Paris, France
Du Vert Galan Gallery - Paris, France
Galerie Bruxelles
Charitic Angel - Paris / Brussels
Agnès Martel Gallery - Swiss
Art Shaker Gallery - Paris / Saint Tropez, France
Gallery - Honfleur, France
Esprit du Cap - Cap Ferret, France
Espace Carpeaux - Levallois, France
Daum Shop. Private exhibition