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Lionel Wodecki draws and sculpts animals—always—and birds, often. He captures the moment, a detail, an infinitesimal detail, and sculpts it. He seeks the line, perfection, and purity. A defender of endangered or protected species, he grants them immortality through his art. He skillfully combines his work as a designer with his passion for sculpture.

“I needed to free myself from industrial constraints and reconnect with my inner child (…), that blessed time when I could spend hours observing animals and wandering through my grandmother’s countryside,” he confides.

Purity has always been the driving force behind his work as a designer, but studying the living world has revealed a new dimension of the artist: the art of suspended movement and the capture of fleeting moments. In Wodecki’s work, one can see inspirations drawn from François Pompon, as well as a pronounced taste for simplifying forms to focus on the essential and the aesthetic.

Wodecki’s sculptures exude a serene beauty imbued with paradoxes: strength and fragility, animal inspiration and human resonance. The animals he portrays almost seem to possess psychology, as if they reflect a part of our own humanity.

In 2024, Lionel Wodecki was recognized by the SNNA and, in the same year, received an award for his sculpture L’Envol noir, presented by EnVa.