Max Coulon

Born in Strasbourg in 1994, Max Coulon works in the POUSH studios in Aubervilliers. He graduated from the Beaux-arts de Paris in 2021 after developing his sculptural practice at Stephan Balkenhol's studio in Karlsruhe.

Max Coulon's sculptures explore a universe where classical architecture and the world of play meet in an ironic, instinctive dialogue.

Using found objects and diverted forms, he confronts ornamental archetypes with raw sculptural gestures, combining repair and weathering. Inspired by the canons of Neo-classicism and Neo-Gothicism, he emphasizes their codes while at the same time undermining them, playing on the tensions between balance and imbalance, rigor and spontaneity.

His works, carved in robust materials such as wood and concrete, reinterpret traditional sculptural figures - atlantes, caryatids, bas-reliefs - to bring them back to a primitive state, to a form of sculptural childhood.

In this world of grotesque toys, references to the popular imagination mingle with representations of authority, in an approach that is both critical and playful.