Wood carries the memory of life. Antide chooses it for its organic warmth, its unique grain, and its resonance with nature. Covered with gold leaf, this noble material becomes a medium of light, between silence and vibration. Each work on wood evokes the essence of an ancient, timeless world, deeply rooted in the earth.
Sous l'écorce
Wounds and sores, scars like memories under a harsh and rough bark. The boat struggling in the trough of the wave, the fragile leaf which casts shadow while containing the sun, the tender hand on a too hot young forehead, the reassuring kiss in the hair of one’s child : there is deep down of each human being a pure, unalterable wood, that protect from bark, here and there.
Gold leaf on wood (from 1400 US$)
Au fond des bois
Deep in the woods Each worm-eaten board carries within it a forest, a tree that has not been able to catch the sky. A regret. Hope in the bud, melancholy in the branch, nostalgia in the dry leaf. While she wrinkles and her veins hollow, in the depths of her closed eyes windows open onto endless time, frozen in gold.
Gold leaf on wood and copper (1600 US$)
Tempus fugit
Represent the time to capture it. Realizing then that, ultimately, it is not eternal. A worm-eaten totem raised towards the sky, covered with the gold of ancient hopes, pierced with the windows of each new day. Seconds that slip, flow, hesitate for a moment and then get lost, somewhere.
Gold leaf on wood and copper (from 4000 US$)
La bouteille à l'amer
The bitter bottle Broken empties In the sea
Gold leaf and glass on wood (1700 US$)