« At first there is the matter: metal is my preference, and then… »
Daniel TIHAY was born in 1946 in Burgundy, in the city of Montbard in France, famous for the forges of Buffon, close to the power hammers of the factory where his father worked.
No wonder why he has always been so attracted by fire and metal work!
At the end of his first technical training course, Daniel was awarded a specialist technical degree in boiler-work and industrial pipe-making. During his training course, he also attended classes as free auditor at Le Louvre Museum and started to learn about the history of arts, devouring painting and sculpture books.
In the 70s, as he was working for a boiler-work company, he had the opportunity to try and develop his own personal creations: but from the year 1980 he was able to visit on a regular basis the workshop of an artisan working as iron manufacturer and blacksmith, and then started to create his first sculptures.
For about twenty years, despite various changes in his work and having moved several times, he nevertheless continued to create intermittently.
In 2006, he opened his own workshop in Brittany in PORDIC (Côtes d'Armor) where he has been fully dedicating himself professionally to sculpture.
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Through his work, one discovers that metal, a material that seems to be heavy, rigid and cold - at first sight -can also be such a light, flexible and warm material !
If Daniel mainly sculpts steel, he also works with copper and brass.
His main tool is the forge, a microcosm where fire, water, air and coal combine their forces in a dance turning into a struggle against the matter.
Then, in his creative act, the blacksmith allies to the four original elements, becoming their accomplice in forcing the metal to bend as he wants.
« Iron, as if moulded in the hearth of the forge, comes out transfigured with both power and lightness. » |
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