Artistic Project
Gaud has worked many years with live models as a painter and a sculptor. Beginning with traditional clay work as it is practiced in France, she slowly detached herself from conventional schemes and began following her own style. She develops specific projects related to people’s identity, intimacy and inner-self.
The thematic of human beings' identity is central to Gaud’s work. She either chooses to capture a single moment or tells an entire story. Suggestion and imagination take always an active part in Gaud's art pieces. She gives her sculptures and paintings an emotional quality that removes their characters' anonymity, yet offering free rein to participants' imagination. She focuses on time desynchronization between her sculpted characters with modern attitudes and the old bronze finish. so her sculptures seem to come out of a different time period and remain timeless. And she likes to build bridges between different media such as photography, drawing, painting, sculpture and unexpected objects. As a professional artist, Gaud likes to continuously renew her work looking for creative challenges. She is best known for her sculptures made of terracotta, plaster, mix media or bronze, yet she progressively introduces new media in her current projects, such as digital art in partnership with Cityshake Limited. Gaud a travaillé de nombreuses années d'après modèle vivant en tant que peintre et sculpteur. Débutant son travail de sculpture par du modelage traditionnel en argile tel qu'il est pratiqué en France, elle se détache progressivement des schémas conventionnels et décide de suivre son propre style. Elle oriente son travail vers l'un des sujets qui la passionnent : l'identité. Tout son travail étant de suggérer l'histoire et l'identité d'une vie à un instant donné, Gaud dose juste ce qu'il faut pour animer les personnages de ses sculptures et peintures, et laisser libre cours à l'imagination de l'observateur. Caractérisée par une liberté de ton, Gaud s'amuse entre décalage et inattendu dans la plupart de ses oeuvres. Quand elle travaille la sculpture d'après modèle vivant, elle joue sur la désynchronisation dans le temps entre ses sujets aux visages et attitudes modernes et le rendu final en bronze vieilli, comme si ceux-ci sortaient d'une autre époque. Ainsi, les oeuvres de Gaud s'inscrivent dans l'intemporalité. Elle aime aussi construire des ponts entre différents medias tels que la photographie, la peinture, la sculpture, des objets inattendus et le digital comme elle a pu le faire en partenariat avec Cityshake Limited. Gaud lavora principalmente su modelli viventi, intorno a due temi che la appassionano: l'identità e il corpo nel suo movimento. Tutto il suo lavoro suggerisce la storia di una vita e di una identità in un dato istante e Gaud dosa attentamente ciò che serve per animare le sue sculture e pitture e dare libero sfogo alla fantasia dell’osservatore. Spirito libero, Gaud dà un tocco ironico e inaspettato alla maggior parte delle sue opere. Quando lavora le sue sculture su modelli viventi, gioca per lo più sul contrasto temporale tra i suoi soggetti, dai visi e dalle attitudini moderne, e il risultato finale in bronzo antichizzato, come se provenissero da un'altra epoca. Così, le opere di Gaud s’iscrivono in un contesto atemporale. |