About
Originally from Bordeaux, France, Hugo moved to Zürich in 2017 where he settled. He found his passion for building and designing furnitures and sculptures early. The impact of his surrounding fascinates him.
In 2022 he was affected by the fire catastrophes in South West of France and everywhere else in the world. He gave himself the mission to alert about global warming and more specifically about the forests burning.
Behind the visual aspect of his sculptures it is to the natural world that it pays tribute and to the fragility of our planet lost in an infinite universe.
The sculptures are made of calcined wood from different essences as well as gold leaves. The calcination process, called Shou Sugi Ban, is an old Japanese technic that preserves and treats the wood. It gives a deep black colour, natural cracks, and shades to the wood. There is no use of paint in the artworks.
Wood reveals all its aspects and becomes visually rich when it is calcined.
Wood, processed with fire, gives an interior an warm and elegant ambiance and is the perfect combination with other raw materials of the room such as stones. The light changes the way we see them and it reveals one or the other aspect of the sculpture depending on the angle.
The sculptures' names are names of cities or regions where forests burned significantly.
Each piece is unique and cannot be reproduced twice nor have the exact same shape due to the reaction of the fire on the wood.