The human tragedy and the female drama

Abstract

It seemed interesting to bring together these two contemporary artists, one French, Lionel Guibout, the other Chinese, He Canbo, whose approaches come together in a certain expression of humanity, for which each has found a singular plastic modality. This is a constant in the art of He Canbo, worried about the evolutions of society, as well as the destiny of man in the world, in the cosmos, or even quite simply in the city, or the daily cycle. Hence the multiplication of situations in which he places the interchangeable humans represented by his “omega”. Lionel Guibout was first interested in the humanity preserved, monumental and mythical, in Greek sculptures, before looking for it in the life of nature, associating the bark of trees, the crusts of the earth, and the human skin. And it is through this living, suffering, “barked” skin that he still expresses his concern for the current offense against women.