Georges Adrien

Who am I ?

I spent most of my life in a professional environment far from the field of art. Coach and trainer in personal development, the business world has been my world. I had the chance to meet brilliant people there, or those touching by their singularity. The business taught me a lot and the artist I am today was forged in its crucible. The capitalist world taught me that all art is also an industry subject to market laws. So, how can we dream stuck in this paradigm? As far as I am concerned, creation came as a necessity. My first creations date from 2002 and constitute my first answers to the question: do I have something to say? Pop Art was my gateway to this space of freedom and freshness that contemporary art represented for me. Then I discovered bronze work. Working with fire means accepting not being able to touch the material you are transforming with your hands. I cast my own bronze alloys in my Normandy workshop. The pieces are chiseled then ground according to my inspiration. I sculpt, melt and re-sculpt each piece that comes out of my forge. Each work is therefore unique.

Why do I do what I do?

The series I am presenting is called “We were robots”. It tells the destiny of robots and their different phases of evolution. At the beginning of their existence, created by humans, they worked in their service. They supported him in the design of his weapons, fought for him, cared for him…

Then humanity having disappeared, the robots were left alone on earth and freed from their servitude, they switched to a more exploratory mode. They traveled the planet and marveled at the beauty of nature. Without manual tasks to perform, they evolved and gradually lost their arms.

Finally in their final era they wondered about the origins of life. Who was the author of the first lines of code in the universe? They finally asked themselves the question of the existence of God.

My robots allow us to take a different look at our current relationship with new technologies. Robotics and AI are seen as cutting-edge technologies. My job is to transform them into classic works. It is in fact a matter of considering them as the next great surviving witnesses of our history.