Mathias

About Mathias

This contemporary figurative male table top sculpture is made from papier mâché.

For decades Paul Duval has reimagined the human form in charming sculptures beautifully handcrafted from papier mâché and wire. Duval’s series of indoor sculptures capture the human ‘condition’ in simple form. Each one possesses a visibly unique personality expressed as a gesture, a pose, and a mood that defines their character. Mathias is an unadorned male figure handmade from golden-coloured papier mâché who is sitting, legs dangling over the edge of a gray, textured ‘rock’-like form. He appears to be reacting to someone or something as his arms are raised and he is clapping his hands.

“This medium (papier mâché) brings out attitudes, emotions, group relations or even wounds.” Paul Duval

Paul Duval is a member of the Canadian Sculptors Society and of the Conseil de la sculpture du Québec. He studied Monumental Sculpture at Université de Rimouski, casting at Maison des métiers d’art, Québec, and soldering at Cimic, Saint-Georges, Québec. In addition to his full-time work as an artist, Duval is Technical Director, Symposium international de la sculpture, Beauce-Art, in Saint Georges De Beauce, Québec. Duval’s sculptures including commissions are in private and public collections in Canada and France.