Jean-François FOURTOU, Bee

Jean-François FOURTOU
Bee, 2020-2023
Resin, aluminum, fur
80 x 56 x 40 cm Galerie RX (Paris)

Jean-François Fourtou's artistic practice is nourished by an abundant bestiary: ants, bees, snails, turtles and dogs are among the figures he likes to represent. By altering the scale of these animals, Jean-François Fourtou can hang them in places they don't normally occupy, allowing nature to reclaim its rights.Inviting the public to take a fresh look at this fauna, both disquieting and absurd, the artist's oversized bees play with our perception of reality. They put us back in the shoes of the child for whom everything seems inordinately large. In this work, typical of his practice, Jean-François Fourtou presents a whimsical, fairytale-like world conducive to daydreaming.

Born in 1964 in Paris, France. Lives and works in Marrakech, Morocco.Jean-François Fourtou is renowned for his singular animal sculptures, followed by unusual and disconcerting architectures such as La Maison de Géant and La Maison à l'Envers.Since the late 2010s, Nanitos, fantastical, mischievous figures on the border between human and vegetable, have been added to his strange, half-magical, half-memorial universe on the theme of childhood.