Steph Cop places his artistic research immersed in the ecosystem of the Morvan where he has set up his workshop. Sculpture is part of a life cycle, the extent of which the artist explores.
By sculpting fallen trees, bearing the stigmata of a memorial story, he prolongs their inscription in the story of Man. IX, an ordered series of 9 ARO forms - figures, was a major movement in Steph Cop's work between 2008 and 2020. A movement that developed as an instrospective exploration of a relationship between man and woman. tree, a stylized and uncluttered projection of the possible multiples of being-in-the-world. Randomly about artistic projects, Steph Cop met the photographer Bálint Pörneczi. He wondered with what eye the portrait painter would approach his figures of ARO, personifications of the tree. Because, the ARO cycle ending, the moment had undoubtedly come to open the face-to-face between the I of the artist and the sculpted figure to a third gaze, the moment to extract oneself from the anthropomorphic mirror to finally to be able to understand the tree as an alterity, to grasp the sublime of its singularity, to offer it a specific aesthetic, beyond the projection of oneself. The photographer's eye will have been this other presence which allows everyone to find their own subjective place. Steph Cop therefore invited Bálint Pörneczi to follow him in his wanderings in Morvan, an inspiring source, to meet trees and sculptures, immersed in the artistic journey.
