Nicolas Cesbron

Because he is in love with light and nature, Nicolas Cesbron relies on both to create pieces of furniture and luminaries, which fuse vegetation’s exuberance, thoughts and his love for the arts. Born in Reims in 1964, the former physics doctorate started assembling his personal cabins when he was a child; He now lives in Saint-Denis as a cabinetmaker inside the wooden house he built for himself.

Around the corner from the Catzéflis Gallery, the vaults inside the Calvaire chapel still commemorate the constellation of lights projected into an infinite variety of patterns by Nicolas’ delicate Fleurs de Morphée; vaporously supported by what look like cratered squash vegetables, the lamps’s bodies are closer to plant creepers, or stems. In this organic universe of ink and paper smells, theories, machines and instructions to celestial mechanics also floats an African sensuality that intoxicated the artist during a two-year collaboration. In the past, he partnered with his city for a parade that was choreographed by Philippe Découflé, exposed his work at the Orangerie in 1994, and later at the Rothschild Foundation, the Avesta Museum in Sweden, or during a Land Art symposium in Japan. Nicolas Cesbron’s art has been regularly shown at the Antonine Catzéflis since 2002.

Submitted by Antonine Catzéflis