Marc Couturier
Artist, France
Born in 1946 in Mirebeau-sur-Bèze (Côte d’Or), Marc Couturier lives and works in Paris.
Marc Couturier’s work carries a strong spiritual, even sacred, dimension and invites the viewer to contemplation. His objects and assemblages show a preference for levitation and suspension, which imbues them with a spiritual charge.
In the early 1990s, Marc Couturier introduced the concept of “redressement” (literally “straightening” or “uprighting”), which brought him recognition. It refers to a series of objects whose shapes, by chance, resemble easily recognizable figures. The artist presents them without altering them. A leaf from an aucuba plant becomes a stained glass window; a walk through Amiens gives rise to the *Cabuchons*, a “virtual redressement” of architectural elements, and so on.