"Despite their sharply differing styles, Sylvaine Sancton and
Viorel Hodre share a common vision of the sculptor’s mission: to convert matter
into forms that provoke an emotional response. Sancton’s work in wood and bronze stresses the curves and arcs of the natural world—ocean waves,
rivulets of flowing water, the sensual contours of the female body. Hodre’s
steel and wood pieces are more angular and geometric, evoking crystals,
molecular structures, or phantasmagoric spacecraft. Observers are free to see
whatever they like in the non-figurative work of both sculptors, but they are
unlikely to remain indifferent. In that sense, “Making Waves” refers both to
the recurrent form in Sancton’s sculpture and photography, and to the artists’
shared aim of shaking up certainties and conventions."
