Yoann Estevenin

Overview

With L’ora delle nuove storie, Yoann Estevenin leads viewers into worlds suspended between reality and imagination, inhabited by faces and figures that seem to emerge from myths, fairy tales, and arcane rituals. Nothing is entirely stable; nothing fully coincides with what it appears to be. His images inhabit a liminal dimension where illusion becomes revelation and the marvelous manifests as a more intense form of reality.

At the core of his research lies a direct relationship with material. Wood, earth, and fire play a central role in his creative process: fire, in particular, is used as a tool of transformationand drawing, leaving burns, marks, and alterations that actively contribute to the construction of the image. This dimension of irreversibility introduces a tension between control and surrender, granting material a decisive narrative and symbolic function.

A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Estevenin has emerged in recent years as one of the most compelling voices of his generation. His work has been presented in major European institutions, including the Musée Fabre, the Palacio Cadaval, and the Salon de Montrouge, and is held in public and private collections such as the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Fondation Daniel et Florence Guerlain. In 2024, the National Museum of Ceramics Princessehof (Leeuwarden, The Netherlands) acquired agroup of his monumental sculptures.