{"id":2414,"date":"2017-03-12T12:23:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T11:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pascalebeneteau.com\/en\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2017-04-02T21:03:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T20:03:50","slug":"encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pascalebeneteau.com\/en\/press-review\/encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"Encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"faune<\/a><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think I have chosen either the \u201canimal\u201d as my main theme, or the wild animal. It is quite natural that I experience a kind of attraction, a complicity with animals. It is an instinctive dialogue in a way. And it is from this informal dialogue that my work has probably derived.<\/p>\n

Is that inspiration?<\/p>\n

I always have been close to nature; it amazes me by its simplicity, its beauty, and fascinates me by its greatness and its power. I also have been fortunate enough to have lived a great part of my life in the heart of large African spaces with endless horizons whose animals are an integral part.<\/p>\n

There is never a project in the first place. From the clay I model, the animal slowly takes shape.\u00a0 It reveals itself little by little, I am only an Intermediate. It pulls itself out of my world to appear in ours. It is always a key period, a suspense, and an exceptional birth, in the intimacy of my workshop.<\/p>\n

Then comes the ultimate step of transforming the terracotta work into bronze with a delicate patina to sublimate the animal.<\/p>\n

Nature is essential to our lives. It is generous when you listen to her. It is to pay her a tribute that I dedicate my work to her;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t think I have chosen either the \u201canimal\u201d as my main theme, or the wild animal. It is quite natural that I experience a kind of attraction, a complicity with animals. It is an instinctive dialogue in a way. Read more …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pascalebeneteau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/faune-sauvage-logo.jpg?fit=305%2C64&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7czaQ-CW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pascalebeneteau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pascalebeneteau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pascalebeneteau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pascalebeneteau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pascalebeneteau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pascalebeneteau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pascalebeneteau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pascalebeneteau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pascalebeneteau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pascalebeneteau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}