FREDERIC DATY

Professional artist for 25 years, DATY creates, with his wife Andrea, wall sculptures made of light raw steel plates cut, weathered, sanded and welded. A varnish preserves the natural colors of the metal. The sculpture is hung on the wall with simple hooks.

DATY studies the relationship between humans and their environment in his series of wall sculptures. Whether this relationship is set in cities or in nature, the ecosystems are constructed with energy and substances. He removes from the object all its details and keeps only its structure, the skeleton (concre- tized by raw steel) and the energy fluxes (illustrated by shadows, light and perspective). The spectator becomes a silent witness to these art pieces, as he plays with the proposed environments by adding his own emotions.