These characters, who will stand together, united as one man, for years to come, whatever the season, day or night, are the best expression according to Karim Alaoui of the idea of an extreme and enduring sport. They are a whole team "welded" who lives...
Water, a source of life, from plants to animals, from tree to man, everything alive owes its existence to this precious commodity. Water is one of the greatest powers in the world. We must use it with respect, cherish it and protect it with fervency. ...
The waves caused by a pebble that falls into the water. From the point of contact, an energy, a reaction modifying the surface from calmness and immobility to a state of agitation. A periodic deformation of time and space variables whose wave motion draws concentric...
A legend says that elsewhere, in the mountains, a large stone was touched by the wing of an angel, causing water to spring forth, clear and pure. All the people who drank it cured their diseases. This legend expresses the connection between nature and creative...
Water, a symbol of life, is a source of energy through its driving force. Regenerating & revitalizing, is the symbol of this powerful and purifying cascade, contrary to the dried up water, carrier of death and desolation. Water the most precious and fragile element of...
At the confluence of the two rivers, a mythical animal sleeps. Preserving its mystery, it absorbs the energy and renders it sanctified and boosted by its internal vortex. The water, the stone, the artist. Who is the sculptor?...
The Human is a River: His body became a stream, a current, a human current, a metallic and luminous current, a stream of thousands of pieces of metal, and of life experiences. A flow of life in him, from him purifying everything in his path....
"Hands of the Wave": this is the image of a "hand in hand", symbol of friendship towards the turbulent waves of our rivers and of us. The sculpture presents us a complicity, forever inscribed in the matter, placed at hand. The folding and the braiding...
The proposed project for the 2016 edition "The Great Wave" refers to the flood of spring waters on the Chaudière river. It is from the textures of the icy polished stone and the petrified rough stone that the sculptor obtains the effect of the moving...
"Aquagraphy" is a project that allows the sculptor to simulate an absence, that of water. Thus the emptiness highlights what should therefore be in presence; the luminous effects of reflection play on the edge of the metal. Water, the constituent element of space, is circumscribed...