Alex Palenski

Alex Palenski is a contemporary sculptor who lives and works between Paris and Normandy. Born into a family of artists, he was quickly drawn to construction and steel sculpture.

He trained alongside his grandfather, a designer. As the artist explains, “It was with him that I learned to combine aesthetics with technique.”

“It has always felt completely natural to me to create and to make whatever one needs, lamps, tables, chairs… and also, and above all, what one doesn’t need.”

Like a goldsmith, the artist bends and cuts metal, shaping it into graceful forms that play with light.

This is how his first sculptures were created, at the age of 20, using copper rods and mirrors. What followed was a quest to improve the balance, movement, lightness, and curves of his stable and mobile sculptures. Steel can be worked like paper; it is malleable, allowing curves to be created with finesse. Then came aluminum, brass, and gold plating to enrich his art.

Alex Palenski also creates abstract art sculptures in plaster. Metal is always present in the sculpture, but hidden by the softer plaster and the undulating forms of his sculptures. The search for balance is always present, as is the search for poetry.

Alex Palenski’s works of art feature in private collections around the world: New York, Rio, Moscow, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Beirut, Geneva, London…

Entirely handmade, each piece is unique and stamped.

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