Born 1975 in Marseille – lives and works in France

Self-taught Franco-Asian sculptor, Olivier Bertrand stands out for a unique approach combining recovery, memory and introspection. Fascinated since childhood by origami and the ability of a simple material to transform, he chose cardboard as the main medium of his work. A modest, light and fragile material that he creates as a noble and expressive material, able to embody strength, emotion and complexity.

His work is part of a deep reflection on transformation, both formal and symbolic. Through his sculptures of mythical animals or warrior figures, especially his samurai, he questions the place of the body, identity and heritage. These warriors of Asia are not merely aesthetic subjects: they represent for him symbols of balance, inner discipline and peaceful resistance – universal values that he wishes to transmit to the public. Each sculpture is thought as a contemporary totem, carrying meaning and emotion.

Olivier Bertrand seeks above all to reconnect art with wonder, to restore meaning to artistic gesture, and to show that beauty can arise from simple materials, provided it breathes breath and soul. Its ambition is to make art accessible, while bearing a high technical and aesthetic requirement.

With the collaboration of renowned foundries such as Barthelemy Art and Pangolin Editions, some of its cardboard pieces are now declined in bronze, thus prolonging their existence over time, while retaining the delicate illusion of the original material.

Olivier Bertrand is now part of the landscape of contemporary sculpture as a separate figure: between recycling and sophistication, between tradition and reinvention, he offers us a poetic and committed art, at the crossroads of cultures and sensibilities.