Yann Delacour
Born in Saint-Brieuc in 1974, Yann Delacour graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux arts de Paris in 1998 under Georges Jeanclos and then Giuseppe Penone. He has developed a cross-disciplinary research project combining sculpture and photography.
The notion of gesture, play, the question of the body, breath, its envelope, the process of production, creation, and its context are fundamental elements in his work. His works exist and are constructed mainly in the form of series. The creative process always seeks a balance between investment and result. All his images convey a certain fragility but also resistance, creating a tension that questions the processes of creativity and the genesis of form.
Yann Delacour has been represented by several galleries since 2001: Nathalie Parienthé, Bendana Pinel, La Galerie Particulière, and Schirman & de Beaucé, showing his work at various national and international fairs. His sculptures and photographs have been included in numerous private collections, notably that of Hermès. Several monumental sculptures in bronze or ceramic have been installed in Paris, created as part of real estate projects such as the new Laennec district in Paris's 7th arrondissement. His latest ceramic sculptures were recently exhibited at the Château d'Esquelbecq with the Galerie Bacqueville, and his photographic works at Amélie Maison d'art, curated by Christian Le Dorze, with a catalog text by Béatrice Andrieux. He has been regularly exhibited by Nadia Candet / Private Choice.
He is also a set designer (Hermès Fbg, Molteni, Galeries Lafayette Haussman, The Conran Shop, MiniMasterpiece) and has been a professor of sculpture and photography at the City of Paris Fine Arts workshops since 2014.
In 2024, he designed his first piece of jewelry, Light, for MiniMasterpiece.
"An artist is in revolt. If I had to define my nature, it would be this. Light is the transmission of this energy, a breath transmitted and carried within oneself."
Light is activated and visible in its dual function once worn. It is associated with the body, worn as a brooch on a shirt or sweater collar, or on the face, worn on the ear. The purpose of this piece of jewelry is to highlight the face. Light does not take the form of a match that has been a source of fire and light. Light is actually the burnt match itself, which has been melted down and transformed into precious metal, gold or silver. Once worn, it is the object that has illuminated and continues to illuminate the face of its wearer, in a symbiotic relationship. When not worn, Light returns to its black box.
