Didier Touchet

About Didier Touchet

Based in St Petersburg Florida

Art medium: Clay, Glaze, Bronze, Wood

About the artists

Paris sculptors; Didier Touchet & CaT have been honing their skills in molding bronze for the past several years.

Originally a wood sculptor, Didier blended his sculptor skills with his forty years of travel experience, bringing about a perfect marriage of his two passions sculpture and travel. CaT was originally clay sculptor. They have decided to merge their projects and sign their biggest achievement together like a rock band.

Their evolution into study of people and attitudes allowed them to introduce another element to this union and extend the range of their talents even further. Using mythological legends (Danaids) in a contemporary context and American western history (Sacagawea), Didier Touchet & CaT are challenging the boundaries of sculpture of the expressionist movement.

Inspiration and what they are passionate about

This is their story that they propose to you in their works. Sketches taken from places that people pay few attentions to: Bamfield British Columbia, Pendleton State of Oregon, Walla-Walla State of Washington, Council Bluffs State of Iowa, West Yellowstone State of Montana, Georgetown Washington DC. They focus on the expressions of the flesh. They seek expression and affirm the universal dimension of figures and groups. Rodin says that “The body, is a molding in which passions are imprinted. “

biggest and smallest achievements

Danaids on Dumbarton Oaks: The 50 daughters of Danaus, 49 of whom were condemned to pour water forever into a leaky vessel for having murdered their husbands. In the classical tradition, they came to represent the futility of a repetitive task that can never be completed as Sisyphus. The Danaids are presented on the Dumbarton Oaks stairways in Washington D.C. where the Dumbarton Oaks Conference take place in 1944, the preparation of Yalta conference and UNO.

Unique copy in Clay and glaze, 91 items, size: 47” x 19” x 27”

Sacagawea: born around 1788 in Idaho and died in 1812 in South Dakota at the age of about 24, Sacagawea is a Native American from the Shoshone tribe. The mysteries around her are so numerous that even her name remains uncertain. It is known that she was abducted at the age of 12 by the Hidatsas with whom she lives briefly since Toussaint Charbonneau, a Canadian trapper have won her on a game of chance by. He marries her. She becomes at the age of 16 the interpreter and the guide of the expedition of Lewis and Clark.

Bronze statue in limited edition of 7 items.

Lucky hand: Goody. original object found near Celilo falls, could be a Native American origin. If you keep close to you the lucky hand, you succeed in all your enterprises.

Size: 2” x 1” x ½”

Exhibitions USA 2019

St Petersburg Art Walk November 9th 2019 St Petersburg, Florida, USA https://stpeteartsalliance.org/second-saturday-st-petersburg-artwalk/
St Petersburg Art Walk October 12th 2019 St Petersburg, Florida, USA https://stpeteartsalliance.org/second-saturday-st-petersburg-artwalk/
St Petersburg, Florida, Glass Art Society Conference March 30th 2019, Danaids project www.glassart.org

Performances 2020

Member of the Morean Center for Clay, St Petersburg, Florida

carole@touchet.fr

didier@touchet.fr

Uncle Oliver Bronze Didier Touchet 05_resized	Uncle Oliver Bronze Didier Touchet 03_resized	Uncle Oliver Bronze Didier Touchet 01 detail_resized
Uncle Oliver Bronze Didier Touchet 04_resized	Uncle Oliver Bronze Didier Touchet 02_resized	Danaid Autonoe
Danaid Erato	Danaid Erato	Photographer
Photographer	Photographer	Sacagawea Bronze
Sacagawea Bronze	Sacagawea bronze	Didier Touchet at Work
Winter Studio Morean Center	Winter studio Morean Center	Danaids Details
Simon Touchet and Eat-no-meat	Danaids detail	Danaid Erato
Agave nude on a blue cushion Agave nude on a blue cushion, Danaid before her marriage by Didier Touchet 02019	Agave nude on a blue cushion Agave nude on a blue cushion, Danaid before her marriage by Didier Touchet 02019	Agave nude on a blue cushion Agave nude on a blue cushion, Danaid before her marriage by Didier Touchet 02019
Agave nude on a blue cushion Agave nude on a blue cushion, Danaid before her marriage by Didier Touchet 02019	Agave nude on a blue cushion Agave nude on a blue cushion, Danaid before her marriage by Didier Touchet 02019	Danaid Hippodamia By Didier Touchet at Terre et Feu France 2019
Danaid Hippodamia By Didier Touchet at Terre et Feu France 2019	Danaid Myrmidone By Didier Touchet at Terre et Feu France 2019	Danaid Myrmidone By Didier Touchet at Terre et Feu France 2019
Danaid Myrmidone By Didier Touchet at Terre et Feu France 2019	Danaid Demophile By Didier Touchet at Terre et Feu France 2019	Danaid Demophile By Didier Touchet at Terre et Feu France 2019
Danaid Demophile By Didier Touchet at Terre et Feu France 2019	Danaid Hippomedusa By Didier Touchet at Terre et Feu France 2019	Danaid Hippomedusa By Didier Touchet at Terre et Feu France 2019
Danaid Electra Hysteria By Didier Touchet at Terre et Feu France 2019	Danaid Electra Hysteria By Didier Touchet at Terre et Feu France 2019	Danaid Electra Hysteria By Didier Touchet at Terre et Feu France 2019
Danaid Clite On Dumbarton Oaks stairways by Didier Touchet at Morean Center Florida 2019	Danaid Clite On Dumbarton Oaks stairways by Didier Touchet at Morean Center Florida 2019	Danaid Clite On Dumbarton Oaks stairways by Didier Touchet at Morean Center Florida 2019
Danaid Anaxibia By Didier Touchet at Morean Center Florida 2019	Work with Master Kiu Yamamoto By Didier Touchet at Morean Center Florida 2019	Workshop By Didier Touchet at Morean Center Florida 2019
Danaid Anaxibia By Didier Touchet at Morean Center Florida 2019	Danaid Anaxibia By Didier Touchet at Morean Center Florida 2019	Danaid Anaxibia By Didier Touchet at Morean Center Florida 2019
Danaid Anaxibia By Didier Touchet at Morean Center Florida 2019	Danaid Anaxibia By Didier Touchet at Morean Center Florida 2019	terracotta bust of R Vasselin terracotta bust of R Vasselin by Didier Touchet 2018 Terre-et-Feu
Terracotta bust R Vasselin terracotta bust of R Vasselin by Didier Touchet 2018 Terre-et-Feu	Bust of a terracotta couple Terracotta bust of Christel & Max Peter William by Didier Touchet 2018	Normandy coat of Arms Normandy Coat of Arms by Didier Touchet 2018
Isabelle & Caroline Terracotta Isabelle & Caroline Terracotta by Didier Touchet Morean Center 2018	Terracotta bust R Vasselin terracotta bust of R Vasselin by Didier Touchet 2018 Terre-et-Feu	Bust of a terracotta couple Terracotta bust of Christel & Max Peter William by Didier Touchet 2018
Bust of a terracotta couple Terracotta bust of Christel & Max Peter William by Didier Touchet 2018	Bust of a terracotta couple Terracotta bust of Christel & Max Peter William by Didier Touchet 2018	Rachel as Venus Victrix 1 is a semi-nude 8 inches reclining neo-Classical portrait sculpture by the French sculptor Didier Touchet. Inspired by Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix by the Italian sculptor Antonio Canova.
Rachel as Venus Victrix 2 Reviving the ancient Roman artistic traditions of portrayals of mortal individuals in the guise of the gods, and of the beautiful female form reclining on a couch with the book of knowledge and the apple of discord.	Rachel as Venus Victrix 3 Venus Victrix is in ancient Rome a representation of the goddess Venus victorious or bringing victory, celebrated especially by Pompey to celebrate one of his military success.	Rachel as Venus Victrix 4 It is however inspired by a Aphrodite army Nikếphoros, who carries the victory that in some eastern regions of ancient Greece rotected the acropolises (one also evokes his kinship with the goddess Ishtar).
Rachel as Venus Victrix 5 It finds its primitive source in the victory that wins Aphrodite at the Judgment of Paris evoked in mythology Greek and its consequence on the founding of Rome by through his son Aeneas.	Julie Diane as Diana Huntress 1 Julie Diane as Diana Huntress is a semi-nude lifesize standing neo-classical protrait sculpture by the French sculptor Didier Touchet. Inspired by the Diana of Versailles statue of the Greek goddess Artemis, with a deer, located in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. It is a Roman copy of a lost Greek bronze original attributed to Leochares, c. 325 BC	Julie Diane as Diana Huntress 2 Diana is the goddess of the hunt, the moon, and nature in Roman mythology, associated with wild animals and woodland, and having the power to talk to and control animals.
Closed hand 1 Guess what I have	Closed hand 2 Guess what I have	Selfportait 2017
Janus - God of gates - Benoit Profile - god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces, since he looks to the future and to the past.	Janus - Dieu des portes - Benoit Face A - A pouvoir sur tous les passages, dans l'espace et dans le temps. Il ouvre l'année et la marche des mois	Janus - God of Gates - Benoit Face B - Janus presided over the beginning and ending of conflict, and hence war and peace. The doors of his temple were open in time of war, and closed to mark the peace. One of these early, severe heads from the year 02017, influenced by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, represents Benoit de Houilles.
Autoportrait Face - Un autoportrait est une représentation d'un artiste, dessinée, peinte, photographiée ou sculptée par l'artiste lui-même.	Self-portrait Profil droit - A self-portrait is a representation of an artist that is drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by that artist.	Self-portrait Left profile - Although self-portraits have been made since the earliest times, it is not until the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century that artists can be frequently identified depicting themselves as either the main subject, or as important characters in their work.
Ébauche de l'Autoportrait Bien que l'exercice de l'autoportrait ait été pratiqué depuis les temps les plus reculés, ce n'est qu'à partir du début de la Renaissance, au milieu du xve siècle, que les artistes peuvent être identifiés eux-mêmes comme représentant, comme le sujet principal ou comme des personnages importants dans leur travail.	Hébé - La jeunesse - Rachel Déesse personnifiant la Jeunesse, la Vitalité et la Vigueur des jeunes. Dans l’Iliade, où son ascendance n'est pas mentionnée, elle est citée par trois fois : elle sert aux dieux d'échanson, leur versant l'ambroisie et le nectar ; elle soigne les blessures que Diomède inflige à son frère Arès; elle aide Héra à atteler son char	Hebe - goddess of youth - Rachel Hebe was supposed to have the power to give eternal youth, and in art is typically seen with her father in the guise of an eagle, often offering a cup to him. This depiction is seen in classical engraved gems as well as later art and seems to relate to a belief that the eagle (like the phoenix) had the ability to renew itself to a youthful state.
Hébé - La jeunesse - Rachel On la voit souvent comme une douce jeune fille. Dans l’Iliade, elle est citée par trois fois : elle sert aux dieux d'échanson, leur versant l'ambroisie et le nectar ; elle soigne les blessures que Diomède inflige à son frère Arès; elle aide Héra à atteler son char.	Hebe and her model Hebe and her model Rachel Touchet in the workshop "Terre et Feu" west of Paris. Terre & Feu is a visual arts workshop that offers artistic courses: drawing, painting, sculpture... maisons-laffitte@terre-et-feu.	Didier Touchet at Clay & Fire Terre&Feu est un atelier d’arts plastiques qui propose des cours artistiques : cours de dessin, de peinture, de sculpture… maisons-laffitte@terre-et-feu.com
Danaid Phartis In Greek mythology, the Danaids were the fifty daughters of Danaus. They were to marry the 50 sons of Danaus' twin brother Aegyptus, a mythical king of Egypt. All but one of them killed their husbands on their wedding night, and are condemned to spend eternity carrying water in a sieve or perforated device. They came to represent the futility of a repetitive task that can never be completed.	Héra - Déesse des femmes - Carole T protectrice des femmes et déesse du mariage. Carole T a servi de modèle.	Hera - goddess of women - Carole T Goddess of women and marriage. Carole T served as a model.
Didier Touchet at Morean ArtsCenter The Historic Train Station, located on 22nd Street South in the Warehouse Arts District of St. Petersburg, FL, has become one of the largest working potteries in the Southeast United States with an over-reaching goal of promoting and enhancing the education of contemporary and historic ceramics.