Laure Boulay Moroccan, b. 1951
The common thread that links Laure's works is to be found in the sculptural substance, which for the artist modulates on the strings of an allusive semantic sphere between shield and armour, which makes the human being a prisoner in his own skin.
Laure Boulay is a French sculptor born in Morocco in 1951.
After attending school in France, her journalistic career took her to live in
England, New York and finally Switzerland where she approached sculpture
In 2011 you participated in the Paris Autumn Salon. Three solo exhibitions follow in three different Parisian art galleries: Galerie Piece Unique, Galerie Montaigne and Galerie Vangelli de Cresci. Museum projects did not take long to arrive: in 2013 she exhibited several large bronzes at the Musée des Beaux Arts de Meaux in France and in 2015 and 2016 a series of imposing sculptures were chosen for the edition of Ostrale in the former slaughterhouse in Dresden. In 2016 another major exhibition takes place in Amsterdam. Her works are part of important private collections in Italy and abroad.
Laure Boulay was born in April 1951 in Rabat, Morocco. She spent her childhood among cork forests, tobacco plantations, horses and cows. She is soon sent to France to follow her studies. Laure Boulay's passion for form comes from afar. As a child, on holiday with her grandparents, in the heart of France, a land of vineyards, crossed by the Loire, she dedicated herself to scraping clay from the bottom of ponds to shape sculptures in the shape of large branched oaks.
Her journalistic career will then take her around the world. After living in New York and England, she chooses Switzerland as an oasis of peace.
Little by little the words written by her are no longer enough for her, they are too tight for her.
One day, on a block of clay, her hands began to work, to speak without stopping.
Everything she had hidden deep inside her started to come out under her fingers.
From clay, she Laure switches to bronze as a material to translate her emotions. Searching for the best foundries, she discovers Tuscany and falls in love with it. Her thousand-year-old history and her ancient landscapes become a continuous source of inspiration for her. The common thread that links Laure's works is to be found in the sculptural substance, which for the artist modulates on the strings of an allusive semantic sphere between shield and armour, which makes the human being a prisoner in his own skin. It was in 2005 that her first sculpture was born: a trunk that ends with two bodies embracing each other. The following ones will no longer be so serene.
In 2011 you participated in the Paris Autumn Salon, where you aroused considerable interest with the bronze work La Burka, as a metaphor of submission to social conventions.
Among her solo exhibitions we remember the exhibition at the Vangeli de Cresci Gallery in 2013, the A 'Montaigne Gallery in 2014 and, again in Paris, the Pièce Unique Gallery in 2017, with the work Brave New World.
In 2013, the Musée des Beaux Arts de Meaux offered him a large space to exhibit her works.
In 2015 and 2016 she participated with a series of impressive sculptures in Ostrale in the former Dresden slaughterhouse.
Afterwards her works successfully travel to Amsterdam.
Her works are part of important private collections in Italy and abroad.
Her most recent research leads her to the symbol of the ladder. Everything develops around a spinal column well planted on the ground. You climb up to the Atlas, the last vertebra and support of the brain. In doing so, she leaves the material world to reach that of the spirit.
Only from deep roots can free thought arise.
