Albert-Louis Chanut is a sculptor from Saint-Étienne born in 1942. The son of a tailor and a seamstress, he works stainless steel in the same way that custom-made suits were once made from patterns and plasma-cut pieces, argon welds, acid bath treatments and long loving polishings... It is a work that is both rich and sober, the materials are heavy and the execution fine, full of tenderness and heavy with a poetry sometimes tinged with the regret of a humanity that is searching for itself without always finding itself or fulfilling itself, raw stories of men who work or who go to war in the sandy fury of soles that have not always had a choice in their battles. There is also a very pure joy, everything that humanity has not stolen from childhood, with the particular expressions of people who love love and who know its language. … today it is a fine and strong work that emerges, supple and wild like a liana, mastered and alive like a personal culture, with the singularity and aesthetic refinement of internal debates smoothly conducted… Authenticity: Original Period: 20th century and contemporary Style: 1990 Characteristics: Signed Theme: Abstract