Bertrand Pigeon was born in Paris in 1961. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in La Celle Saint-Cloud, before going on to the National Superior School of Fine Arts in Paris.

  The artist expresses himself through unusual materials—steel and cement—giving them new life in an unexpected environment. 

Bertrand Pigeons work is decidedly contemporary. With concrete as his preferred medium, his work suggests a Zen-like balance of graceful airiness and rugged substance. A surface that is too smooth loses its tension and the eye glides over the piece with nothing to capture interest. A surface that is too rough presents more detail than the eye can process.

  Working with concrete and metal allows the artist to create a rich texture, interesting without being distracting, substantial yet airily open to interpretation, in materials that are customarily seen in modern construction.

  Space is essential to his sculpture. It completes the work by complementing the solid aspects, the yin of concrete and the yang of airy nothingness. The spaces breathe life into the solid sculpture, suggesting form where nothing physical exists.

  “Concrete is also preferred, it’s rough and dense. The big pieces must cleanse it, give it wings. The small ones avoid uniformity and chase away the void to penetrate it, to form an allegiance. They bear witness to a great mastery...”
Michel Gaudet, Art Critic