Hermine Bourdin

France

Paris based sculptress, Hermine creates her universe inspired by the feminine lines of the female body. Passionate by sculpture since a very young age, Hermine seeks to represent generous, proud sensual women, all imbued by a strong and protective tone. Once imagined, the shape is drawn before beginning a long dialog with the material, doing and undoing the work until each piece comes to life in a perfect balance of curves and movements. Then she starts the process of finishing touches giving to each piece this unique sensual texture. Her work is an ode to every women. Hermine sees each woman as a potential sculptress of life, that’s why she often places a circle inside her work, to represent a womb or the Earth, homonym of her material of choice, that same Earth that nourishes us, Gaïa.


Hermine also gives a second life to her sculptures on a digital level, she uses digital art as a material of exploration and creation. As a traditional sculpturess, she finds it very liberating to defy physical universe laws through digital works where terrestrial gravity isn’t a constraint ; enabling her to play between static and kinetic, material and inmaterial.


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What if Magritte played Tetris

"Being a fan of the Surrealist artistic movement, I always wondered what would Magritte or Dali do if they played video games or if they knew about Blender and Photoshop? What would happen if they were alive today? I’m sure they would have tons of fun. It’s in that frame of mind that I endeavored to see through the eyes of René Magritte.

This piece is paying tribute to the master by reinterpreting his painting « Les Marches de l’été » 1938-1939. I’m sure Magritte would have been bored to play Tetris the usual way but would have found much fun in one that would defy the laws of gravity. The sculpture here is a 3D scan of one of my physical pieces created in sandstone, that was sliced and then animated in a bouncing surreal manner."

technique

3d

format

landscape

duration

00:49

year

2022

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