French-American sculptor, Emmanuel Fillion, is an artist dedirectly from a long tradition of apprenticeship in sculpture, going back to the medieval time of the great cathedrals. The 14th generation, a direct grandson of Master Jean Cousin - painter of the French Renaissance - and creator of the “Eva Prima Pandora” (currently exhibited in the Louvre), Fillion was born in France in 1966 in Soissons, an area rich in history and stone-carving heritage. He started sculpting at 15 years of age, and began as an apprentice renovating prestigious historical monuments in France such as: Notre Dame, Chateau de Chambord, The Louvre, the Sainte Chappelle in Vincennes, The Cathedrals of Amiens, Sens, Beauvais, Rouen, Bourges, Moulins and Blois to name a few.
Emmanuel Fillion’s sculptural universe is a dimension inhabited mainly by female figures, both classic and modern women carved in marble or molded in bronze, of timeless beauty. They are candid, naked bodies and sinuous forms with a Baroque flavor, in which Fillion maintains tension, but which then resolves into simpler and more fluid solutions, renouncing decorative excess to accentuate the movement of the figure or bring out the purity of the marble. The profound respect and admiration of the sculptor for woman emerge; she is understood as the generating force and mother of all things but also as an enigmatic figure, fascinating in her complexity.
