Alain Kirili
A Sculptor of Desires
“My sculpture is tactile and rhythmic. The material, whether iron, terra cotta, or bronze, records an emotion that is different every day. Emotion is essential to the understanding of my work.”
Alain Kirili
“ They’re a couple. He sculpts, she photographs. They are two; they live together, their works lie side by side, know each other, speak to each other – and love each other.”
Yannick Haennel
“ For Kirili, it is not
a matter of according sculpture a special privilege. It is a matter of giving free rein to his own energies, desires, and beliefs and allowing the results—his sculptural art—to find an accord with the work of others equally free, whatever the medium in which they work. From that accord, endlessly improvised, come the values and the meanings—above all, the pleasures—that sustain our culture, which is to say: the lives of our embodied selves. ”
Carter Ratcliff
