Dominique Couque, Bronze and Marble Sculpture, Signed and Numbered 1/1

  
COUQUE Dominique, "Figurehead", bronze and marble sculpture, signed and numbered 1/1, height: 110cm. A former student of the Fine Arts, committed to sculpture for 15 years, he created his first skull in stone. Couque could not imagine a day without creation: "otherwise I would go crazy". Describing himself as three-quarters figurative, one-quarter abstract, Couque draws inspiration from eternal themes such as love, human beings, and grand emotions: "I would like people to be able to look at my works in two thousand years and still find them beautiful". His preferred materials are bronze and marble. A certain guarantee of longevity. Couque's approach, a pioneering gesture of his time. Busts, jerry cans, Gauls are all series that surprised upon their release.

The reception of the sculptures by the public has sparked passions: far from the balanced vision of an in-between, the eye had to be trained to understand the event. The artist is also very demanding about the exhibition of his work, refusing for years group exhibitions where the interest of the object is lost in the multitude and in the incoherence of a certain mix.

Couque denounces lost works, because they are left behind in the vast underworld of a place, having left the forefront of the scene for the background of a courtyard. Sculpture must be alive, in the daylight, offered to the space of the gaze. Couque's sculptures not only dance in the light, they are the breath that rises, irregular like the material that composes them, they hurt and they are there, in the evidence of the present... 1973 Begins to sculpt directly on a limestone. 1977 SORNAS Drawing School in Paris.

1977/1983 Student at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris. F FAVRAT; ETIENNE MARTIN and M. 1979 FIAP PARIS 20 sculptures. 1979 Silver Medal from the General Council of OISE. 1980 Becomes a member of the INDEPENDENT ARTISTS. 1980 Exhibition at GALERIE MANDRAGORE in La Défense Paris.

1980 Exhibition at FIAP NANTERRE. 1981 Prize at the Fine Arts salon in CHANTILLY. 1982 ART VIVANT Prize (GALLERY OF ART ROCHE GUYON).

1982/1983 LIGNE ROSET Gallery in Paris. 1983 CONTEMPORARY ART BILAN NEW YORK. 1986 DOMINICA GALLERY (CAP D'AGDE). 1986 Permanent exhibition at AIRBORNE Paris. You can contact me for more information.