YVON BESCOND – SCULPTOR

Thanks to the Sculpture and Marble Festival in Saint-Béat, Yvon Bescond met a number of sculptors. In 2003, he began carving stone himself, which was a revelation for him. I’m not looking for a style, everything inspires me,” he says. From a rough block, I like to play with its shapes, colours and transparencies, to get rid of the excess until I find a lightness and an almost crystalline sound. It’s a constant search for mobility, for movement, so that the sculpture is paradoxically not marble”