"My work is oriented around a symbolic material of the industrial world: steel."

Here are a few words,  in an elliptical way, how Patrice Racois defines his work as a sculptor through a specific relationship he has with this archetypal element of the industrial world.

Patrice Racois must have felt the same mysterious attraction to this material that the first sculptors did. But it is especially through his work that he will be part of the lineage of these daring pioneers of modern sculpture: Gonzalez, Picasso, Gargallo, Chillida.

Patrice Racois