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Ghyslaine and Sylvain STAELENS

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Title: Totem Medium: Wood, Roots, Rusted Metal Dimensions: 175 x 62 cm / 69 x 24.5 in Provenance: Artists' Studio Price: $5000 Request Information:	Title: Socle 41: Le magicien Medium: Roots, Wood, Rusted Metal Dimensions: 94 x 31 cm / 37 x 12 in Provenance: Artists' Studio Price: $2000 Request Information:	Title: Socle 39: Le chasseur Medium: Roots, Wood, Rusted Metal Dimensions: 104 x 35 cm / 41 x 14 in Provenance: Artists' Studio Price: $2000 Request Information:
Title: Socle 38: Fetiche Medium: Roots, Wood, Rusted Metal Dimensions: 77 x 20 cm / 30 x 8 in Provenance: Artists' Studio Price: $2000 Request Information:	Title: Socle 32: Totem Medium: Roots, Wood, Rusted Metal Dimensions: 92 x 28 cm / 36 x 11 in Provenance: Artists' Studio Price: $2000 Request Information:	Title: Socle 10: L'ange Medium: Roots, Wood, Rusted Metal Dimensions: 57 x 48 cm / 22 x 19 in Provenance: Artists' Studio Price: $1700 Request Information:
Title: Socle 9: Le chaman Medium: Roots, Wood, Rusted Metal Dimensions: 67 x 16 cm / 26 x 6 in Provenance: Artists' Studio Price: $2000 Request Information:	Title: Socle 4: Le chasseur Medium: Roots, Wood, Rusted Metal Dimensions: 92 x 20 cm / 36 x 8 in Provenance: Artists' Studio Price: $2000 Request Information:	Title: Socle 1: Le Perse Medium: Roots, Wood, Rusted Metal Dimensions: 57 x 18 cm / 22 x 7 in Provenance: Artists' Studio Price: $1700 Request Information:
Title: Poupee 205 Medium: Roots, Wood, Rusted Metal Dimensions: 48 x 8 cm / 19 x 3 in Provenance: Artists' Studio Price: $700 Request Information:	Title: Pieds et Poings lies Medium: Roots, Wood, Rusted Metal Dimensions: 90 x 80 cm 35 x 31 in Provenance: Artists' Studio Price: $2800 Request Information:	Title: Mais que font-ils? Medium: Roots, Wood, Rusted Metal Dimensions: 150 x 150 cm / 59 x 59 in Provenance: Artists' Studio Price: $5000 Request Information:
Title: La chasse Medium: Roots, Wood, Rusted Metal Dimensions: 150 x 150 cm / 59 x 59 in Provenance: Artists' Studio Price: $5000 Request Information:	Title: Bas-relief 36: Les enfants Medium: Roots, Wood, Rusted Metal Dimensions: 87 x 75 cm / 34 x 29 in Provenance: Artists' Studio Price: $2800 Request Information:	Title: Animal 2 Medium: Roots, Wood, Rusted Metal Dimensions: 45 x 75 cm / 17 x 29 in Provenance: Artists' Studio Price: $2000 Request Information:
Title: Animal 1 Medium: Roots, Wood, Rusted Metal Dimensions: 50 x 54 cm / 19.5 x 21 in Provenance: Artists' Studio Price: $2000 Request Information:	Title: La Cavaliere Medium: Mixes media Dimensions: 21 x 21 inches - 55 x 55 cm Provenance: Artist's Studio Request Information:	Title: Poupee 119 Medium: mixed metal, fabric, wood etc Dimensions: 27.5x 5.5 in Price: $1120 Request Information:
Title: Les Allies Medium: Wood, Roots, Rusted metal Dimensions: 23 x 23.5 in (58 x 59 cm) Provenance: Artist's Studio Price: $2300 Request Information:	Title: Poisson lune Medium: metal, fabric, wood etc. Dimensions: 15.75x 13.75in 40x35cm Price: $1400 Request Information:	Title: Poisson Perche Medium: mixed metal, fabric, wood etc Dimensions: 19.75x10.5in Price: $1400 Request Information:
Title: Poisson Abys Medium: mixed metal, fabric, wood etc Dimensions: 19.75x10.5in Price: $1400 Request Information:	Title: Momie 2 Medium: mixed metal, fabric, wood etc Dimensions: 52x35.25in Price: $7000 Request Information:	Title: Poupee Medium: mixed metal, fabric, wood etc Dimensions: 11x14in Price: $560 Request Information:
Title: The Family 2004 Medium: Mixes media Dimensions: 24 x 20 inches - 60 x 52 cm Provenance: Artist's Studio Request Information: Sold:	Title: Bas Relief no 5 2006 Medium: Mixes media Dimensions: 23.5 x 35,5 inches, 60x90cm Provenance: Artist's Studio Request Information: Sold:	Title: La fete 2006 Medium: Mixes media Dimensions: 31 1/2 x 67 inches , 80 x 170cm Provenance: Artist's Studio Request Information: Sold:
Title: Le reveur 2005 Medium: Mixes media Dimensions: 58,25 x 62,25 inches, 148 x 158 cm Provenance: Artist's Studio Request Information: Sold:	Title: Pierre et le Loup 2005 Medium: Mixes media Dimensions: 34 x 12 inches 87 x 30cm Provenance: Artist's Studio Request Information: Sold:	Title: Bas Relief no 8 2006 Medium: Mixes media Dimensions: 31 x 39 inches, 80 x 100 cm Provenance: Artist's Studio 2006 Request Information: Sold:
Title: Sous Les Tropiques 2006 Medium: mixes media Dimensions: 60 x 25 cm - 23x10 inches Provenance: Artist Studio 2006 Request Information: Sold:	Title: La Vache Medium: mixes media Dimensions: 56 x 1.20 cm - 22x47 inches Provenance: Artist Studio 2006 Request Information: Sold:	Title: La Maitresse D'ecole 2006 Medium: mixes media Dimensions: 53 x 128 cm - 21 x 50 inches Provenance: Artist Studio 2006 Request Information: Sold:
Title: La Dompteuse 2006 Medium: mixes media Dimensions: 58 x 1.26 cm - 23 x 49.5 inches Provenance: Artist Studio 2006 Request Information: Sold:	Title: Chez Nous 2006 Medium: mixes media Dimensions: 37x1.25 cm - 15 x 49 inches Provenance: Artist Studio 2006 Request Information: Sold:

Biography

Ghyslaine and Sylvain Staelens


Ghyslaine and Sylvain Staelens first became an artistic team in 1996, when  the two self-taught artists decided to move into the remote countryside of D’Auvergne.  This volcanic region provided them with plenty of materials with which to create sculpture, bas-relief, masks, figurines, totems, and crucifixes.  The floating wood, roots, and rusted metals that they found there soon became indispensable to their work.  The media used gives the illusion of being from a primitive, more ritualistic way of life.
 
Starting from sophisticated assemblies of tree branches and roots, the couple manufactures creations that give rise to animal and human forms.  The unit, imbued with nails and wires and oxidized to give the appearance of rusted metal, is meant to give body to the various mental entities that stimulate us or torment us. For the artists, the flexible and solid wire symbolizes attachment, the barbed wire and the nails symbolize suffering and the human horror, and the branches represent the discipline, the rigor, the control of the spirit.   The artists compare the process by which they apply their sophisticated sand formula to the exercise of an exorcism. 

Ghyslaine and Sylvain, fascinated and influenced by Latin American and African tribal art, produce oeuvres of an astonishing visceral power.  The passion, combativeness, and even rage that go into the work of this couple are plainly visible in the quality of their creations.

 

Recent Exhibitions: 

2008    Hang-Art. Saffré

Galerie La main qui parle  « Momies ». Paris

Biz’Art-Biz’Art. Le Vaudioux

 « Un Monde de Bruts ».  St Sever du Moustier

L’Art en Marche, 10^ème anniversaire.  Lapalisse

                             Les Nouveaux Troubadours.  St Sever du Moustier

Salon MAC Paris,  Espace Champerret.  Paris

"Outsider days",   l’Art en Marche. Haarlem  (Pays Bas)

 

2009    Centre Culturel Le Polaris,  « Expressionnismes ».  Corbas

Galerie Susi Brunner « Literacy for All ». Zurich

Galerie L’Art à Part. Ollioules

 

Ghyslaine and Sylvain Staelens exhibit their work permanently at:

Galleries

 • Gramercy 32 Fine Arts, New York

• Galerie Beatrice Soulie. Paris 

• Galerie Susi Brunner. Zurich. 

• L'Art a Part. Ollioules  

Museums

 • Musee de l’Art en Marche. Lapalisse

 • Musee de l’Art en Marche. Hauterives

 • Collection Ceres Franco. Lagrasse

 • Musee de la Haute-Auvergne. St-Flour