A multidisciplinary artist, Christophe eagerly embraces life with his quick and vibrant strokes. These sketches dance in notebooks that, as they pile up over the years, form a leaning tower.

From these sketches are born engravings, monotypes, ceramics, paintings, sculptures, photographs, pieces of solid wood... An insatiable explorer of materials, he shapes them with the supple and uninhibited gesture of someone discovering them. And his sketches come to life, like his delicate ink lines. A serial score where each motif is unique.

Each exploration is a chapter written in the flow of material and gesture, a palpable tension between the childlike joy of breaking new ground and the inner demands of the adult. The choreography of letting go is a tumultuous, joyful, and painful tango. This quest falls in love with obsolete techniques like Sèvres porcelain, metalworking, pyrography, and basketry.

His latest creations explore wood in a tightrope walk between furniture and art sculpture. Always, the original sketch appears as a watermark. It inspires the curves and rhythms, the sensuality, the modeling. Then are born forms that are just right, surprising, intriguing, sometimes burlesque, but of undeniable beauty. A mystique that recalls the trembling universes of Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast, where poetry vies with function.

Beyond any label, there is in Christophe and his works a Don Quixote-like flourish, a dream of freedom escaped from a childhood woven with conventions, an incredulous hold-up where yet the truth is revealed. In this kingdom, nothing is usurped. It is a lesson repeated where always, he awakens amazed. For our greatest delight...

I would like to take advantage of this residence to work mainly on drawing (ink, pastel, charcoal, colors).And develop work initiated in recent years on the “botanical imagination”. Having already had a short stay in Lanzarote, I saw that in the face of the mineral environment the flora developed treasures of inspiration.