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Original artwork description:

When shadow takes shape: a face emerges, suspended between matter and light.
This sculpture is a continuation of the metal painting ‘Shadow in the Night’, transposed here into a sculptural dimension.
A face appears, combining steel and bronze in an airy metal lace.
The material unfolds like a living branch, evoking memory, time and the invisible.
The pigments applied to the face add depth and chromatic vibration, contrasting with the openwork metal structure.
This tension between fullness and emptiness, between colour and raw metal, gives the sculpture a strong emotional charge.
On the borderline between sculpture and drawing in space, this sculpture explores shadow not as absence, but as a tangible presence, revealing a humanity that is both fragile and powerful.
Steel base, diameter 10 cm.
Unique piece. Signed sculpture, accompanied by its certificate of authenticity.

Materials used:

Steel, bronze, pigments

Tags:
#dripping art #metal artwork #metal sculpture #face sculpture #bronze sculpture #metal face #bronze face #face artwork #bronze artwork #metal lace #tear sculpture #tear artwork #metal tear #lace sculpture 

Shadow Fragment (2025) Sculpture
by Philippe Buil

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When shadow takes shape: a face emerges, suspended between matter and light.
This sculpture is a continuation of the metal painting ‘Shadow in the Night’, transposed here into a sculptural dimension.
A face appears, combining steel and bronze in an airy metal lace.
The material unfolds like a living branch, evoking memory, time and the invisible.
The pigments applied to the face add depth and chromatic vibration, contrasting with the openwork metal structure.
This tension between fullness and emptiness, between colour and raw metal, gives the sculpture a strong emotional charge.
On the borderline between sculpture and drawing in space, this sculpture explores shadow not as absence, but as a tangible presence, revealing a humanity that is both fragile and powerful.
Steel base, diameter 10 cm.
Unique piece. Signed sculpture, accompanied by its certificate of authenticity.

Materials used:

Steel, bronze, pigments

Tags:
#dripping art #metal artwork #metal sculpture #face sculpture #bronze sculpture #metal face #bronze face #face artwork #bronze artwork #metal lace #tear sculpture #tear artwork #metal tear #lace sculpture 
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All my sculptures are entirely made by me. I work mainly in bronze and steel and I create a lace of metal, thanks to a technique I have developed: metal... Read more

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