Jules Lobgeois
Jules Lobgeois is based in a small village in the south of the Oise. It is here, surrounded by forests where his ancestors lived, that he finds inspiration as well as the wood and steel he needs to create.
Trained in design at Ensaama Olivier de Serres in Paris, then at Laab in Rennes where he obtained his Higher Diploma in Applied Arts, he developed a passion for sculpture after graduating. It was while working in the Banneel workshops on the restoration of Jean Prouvé's structures that he learned the mastery of steel. His taste for solid wood sculpture comes from his collaboration with the artist and sculptor Kaspar Hamacher, whom he assists for more than a year in Belgium.
Back in France, he opened his workshop in which he produced the pieces he designed by hand. Halfway between functional objects and sculptures, each piece that Jules creates comes from a search for purity of form. His resource, local, he finds it during excursions in the forests of the Oise, in search of inspiration, forms, resources. This is how he collects wood - dead or from trees lying down by increasingly recurring storms - to dry it in his workshop. When the time comes, the tree, which has become a piece of wood, is cut to be reborn in a new form.
Credit portrait Eugenie Touzé.
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