“It all starts with chocolate...When the art of mastering it simply becomes Art.I am one of those outsiders, off the beaten track, who create their own mark.Coming from nowhere and therefore from everywhere.No museum before the age of 24, no drawing classes and even fewer Fine Arts,I was born like this.I started working with chocolate in sculpture in the 2000s.The instinctive love of aesthetics.An insolent mastery of the material pushes me to create again and again,always faster.Physical strengths,moral forces,strong forces and weak forces in parallel with the fragility of chocolate and the robustness of metal.Eternal ephemeral.Gentleness and brutality.”
PATRICK ROGER
Born in 1968 in Poislay, Patrick Roger lives and works near Paris. Born into a family of artisan bakers on the outskirts of Perche, he grew up with rigor and a love of the land, food and work. There are no signs of civilization or culture here.
It was during his apprenticeship that Patrick Roger discovered the material that would open the world to him.
Sensual, capricious, sensitive, plastic: chocolate.
First, the ultimate symbiosis was born through the sculpting of tastes, then quickly the chiseling of volumes. Coming from nowhere and therefore from everywhere, Patrick Roger embodies absolute freedom of expression.
“It all starts with chocolate... When the art of mastering it becomes just Art.”
In 2000, with the Coubertin foundry, he managed to elevate his capricious material to the rank of art, in order to find his ultimate means of expression. After the carving of tastes to reach the deepest, comes the carving of volumes to support causes greater than oneself.
