Catherine François

Belgian sculptor Catherine François, born in 1963, is renowned for her sometimes monumental bronzes.

If there is one guiding principle in the work of Catherine François over the last ten years, it is a cross, or rather an intersection, a meeting. Catherine François collects intersecting lines. She captures them everywhere, all the time, starting with photographs. She probably has hundreds, perhaps thousands. Encounters – or shocks – are everywhere for those who know how to see them. And Catherine François is a sounding board – paradoxically, she whose silhouette is more reminiscent of a reed in the wind, long and slender. Her apparent fragility hides a great strength, the strength of the nature she listens to, feels and vibrates to. You have to see her apply this strength to bronze, to this forged material, which she sculpts, girdles and polishes.

The Van Buuren Museum has devoted two retrospectives to her work, in 2007 and 2012.