Goliath II

Christophe Charbonnel was born in Nantes in 1967 and he has been working with sculpture for 17 years. His artistic career started as a cartoonist at the Walt Disney studios in Montreuil, but he has been fully commited to his sculpture practice since 2002, slowly expanding both in size and number of characters in his pieces. He chooses to portray ancient heros and mythology in general, this one in particular showing the giant Goliath. The rough, realistic style shows a careful balance of strong profiles and expressions alongside smooth anatomy and lightness of shape, despite most of Christophe's work being cast in bronze.