French self-taught sculptor Pierre Matter was born April 4, 1964 in Haut-Rhin, in the valley of Munster. After a rather mystical childhood, he, without conviction, left his studies in math for artistic creation. He tried his hand at gouache, watercolor, was involved in drawing comics and bas-reliefs in stone. He finally found his artistic way in sculpture that has always been his main passion. Pierre Matter has been creating stunning sculptures for more than ten years. His art studio is actually his garage, where he using copper, aluminum, bronze, rubber and everything that comes to hand creates his scrap metal artworks. Steampunk Sculpture by Pierre Matter combines nature and products of industrial world. Some of his sculptures weigh more than six tons.

French sculptor Pierre Matter has exhibited his Steampunk Sculptures in artgalleries – in New York, Paris, Singapore, Miami, Hong Kong, London, Venice, Geneva, Seoul, Monaco, Dubai, Shanghai and in his home country France. His works got several awards – 1999: Prize for Sculpture Foundation by Paul Ricard (Bandol), 1997: 1st prize for sculpture (Luxeuil), 1996: 1st prize in Couthenans, 1995: 1st prize for sculpture in Council of Europe (Strasbourg), 1993 Gold Medal of the World – Arts – Salon (Avignon).

My artistic work fits into this disruptive era, when all the limits are constantly being called into question by technology and science. It’s a modest attempt to apprehend by means of concrete shapes the effects of the uncontrolled acceleration of change on our lives and our planet.

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