Pierre Content has been a member of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Association
in Roussillon for many years.
Born in 1940 in the Jura, Pierre Content first studied architecture, and then directed his research towards the pure form: rhythm, material, structure.
In 1966, the Besançon École des Beaux Arts awarded him the diploma of industrial aesthetician, and he worked as a designer but with the secret desire of becoming a sculptor one day
For several years now, he has been making sculptures in bronze, stone or wood as a variation on the theme of the taut curve.
“I love curves,” says Pierre Content, “but especially taut curves, which – as opposed to soft curves – express vitality and inner strength. Nature does not know straight lines. Neither do I.”
He feeds his inspiration from his studio overlooking the sea in Port-Vendres.
Daniel Mangion was born in 1934 in Tunisia.
After studying at the École des
Beaux Arts in Tunis, he attended the school of architecture in Tunis and Toulouse. He then became a professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Toulouse.
He then devoted himself to his painting and now participates in numerous exhibitions.
A painter from countries of sunshine, Mangion is a great colourist. He paints crowds where the individual is no longer personalised, but is more often than not a pretext for games with colours, which have, one senses, a very elaborate construction.
Nowadays his compositions tend towards abstraction in the search of luminous phenomena.
He continues his aesthetic research from the studio of his home in Banyls sur Mer using acrylic paint amongst other materials.
A common point links these two artists with Charles Rennie Mackintosh: all three had an initial training as architects…