In Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, near Tours, Les Ateliers de la Morinerie have become a genuine laboratory for contemporary art.
Just before the open studio event, artists Pierre-Jean Chabert (animal sculptor), Sarah Scouarnec (visual artist), and Thibault Jandot (painter) unveiled an intimate yet powerful exhibition — an artistic immersion exploring the bond between material, gesture, and life itself.
Metal, clay, and color converse here with a shared vitality, forming a dialogue where the gesture becomes language and matter becomes memory.
Pierre-Jean Chabert: The Telluric Force of the Bestiary
Sculptor Pierre-Jean Chabert introduces a strikingly raw and organic world.
His bronze animal sculptures — rhinoceroses, gorillas, mandrills — seem frozen in suspended motion, radiating strength and vulnerability at once.
Chabert doesn’t represent the animal — he reveals its essence.
Each piece, cast in one of the five foundries he collaborates with, captures the tension and pulse of life, preserving the energy of the artist’s hand within the metal’s density.
It is sculpture as living matter — an elegant balance between primal power and quiet grace.
Sarah Scouarnec : The Dreamlike Feminine
In contrast, Sarah Scouarnec offers a poetic counterpoint.
Her sculptures, inspired by mythology and surrealism, embody a dreamlike femininity rooted in nature.
Organic forms intertwine with human faces, evoking an archaic and shamanic energy.
Traces of modeling remain visible, as if the clay still breathed.
Through this tactile presence, Scouarnec explores the boundary between body and landscape, spirit and matter, in a deeply human gesture../
Thibault Jandot : Urban Energy and Instinct
A painter from the graffiti scene, Thibault Jandot infuses the space with a vibrant, urban pulse.
His canvases, charged with color and movement, echo Chabert’s animal intensity while anchoring it in the rhythm of the city.
Jandot’s expressive brushstrokes convey a sense of instinctive urgency — an electric connection between the natural and the urban, between raw emotion and artistic control.
A Symbiosis of Forces: Nature, Presence, and Creation
This three-way dialogue reveals a rare coherence.
Together, Chabert, Scouarnec, and Jandot celebrate the power of life through matter.
One sculpts the body, another sculpts the soul, the third gives both movement and color.
At Les Ateliers de la Morinerie, art becomes a sensorial experience, a meditation on presence, and a celebration of the creative energy that animates all living things.
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