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Galit Allouche and her wax sculptures caught the eye of the “Fondation de France” which awarded the artist this year’s Charles Oulmont Prize. The new Parisian sculptress is this week receiving visitors in her workshop.
“Miss Allouche’s sculptures give us a glimpse into a new world, waiting to be discovered,” said the Charles Oulmont Jury in its annual ceremony, where it granted the artist a prize for her sculptures and an opportunity to exhibit her work in a gallery in central Paris.
Allouche’s work is a combination of wax and light, movement and life. “Metro lines”, “onion peal”, “angel wing” or “ear”, every piece is a lively and undefined concept.
“The wax sculptures never stop evolving,” explains the young brunette who came from Israel to fully explore her work capacities in Paris at the forge of Belleville, a popular Northern Parisian quarter.
Some Allouche sculptures vibrate like volcanoes, while others are peaceful as sleeping angels. The colours give alternatively an impression of life breathing and beating beneath a chilly white wax surface, others a feeling of unknown, dreadful reality beneath the quiet surface.
Watching wax evolve
All sculptures seem as real live element from a parallel world, the Arctic Circle or from a science-fiction movie. Others, such as Onion Peal, resemble Pop Art pieces. “Metro lines” is a concept art piece with lights representing underground stations showing the movement in modern city life.
“I never have a definite idea of what will become of the sculpture I’m working on,” Allouche told EJP.
“I’m just watching the piece change as I take it through the different phases of the process. When I’m satisfied with the sculpture, I leave it as it is.”
Allouche participated in several joint exhibits and her own collection at the Vert Galland Gallery on Saint-Louis Island.
This week Allouche is welcoming visitors to her Belleville workshop. Exhibition at La Forge de Belleville, 23-25 rue Ramponeau, Paris
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