ATELIER ERIC JOURET

Concrete Sculptures

The Epic of
Mister Hope

While dreaming we are like equilibrists,

our dreams give us hope

but their realization make us live

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THE STORY

Un monde imaginaire né du confinement

I started my work more than 10 years ago.

I drew, imagined, dreamed of all these forms of life...

The covid crisis created this inexorable desire to give life to my dreams in order to survive in full confinement and to escape into a free and welcoming world...

I gradually succeeded in sculpting, materializing and creating “for real” these images present in my mind, and I ended up giving birth to them !

THE EPIC OF MISTER HOPE

Three chapters, one world

CHAPTER 1

The Creatures, the joyful characters

This family of colorful and friendly characters owes its story to the creation of “Mister Hope” in full lockdown during the covid crisis.

CHAPTER 2

Their protective and protective Gods

The characters of this imaginary world are surrounded by Gods created in their image: benevolent, tolerant and respectful.

CHAPTER 3

Their Temples of Peace

Our happy characters are also great architects.

They built small houses to live in harmony with their friends, the small building "Roman Tree" illustrates their desire to build with the help of nature to make a human and pleasant home.

Chapter 1, the lovely characters

This family of colorful and friendly characters owes its story to the creation of “Mister Hope” in full lockdown during the covid crisis.

I quickly created 'Miss You', his lifelong love...

Together they are 2 sons :“Mister Fun”, little man full of creativity and “Mister Now”, lively and decided.

And I naturally imagined their girlfriends: 'Miss Owl' and 'Miss Law' who now share their life and are part of the community

Mister Hope n°1

The main character of the epic.

Chapter 2, the friendly and protective Gods

The characters of this imaginary world are surrounded by Gods created in their image: benevolent, tolerant and respectful.

The first is Mr. God (Father, young) : sober and powerful, he symbolizes water, earth, and fire...

He protects our characters of their fears.

Mister God (Father, old) less colorful, more sober and calmer, undoubtedly because of life’s trials.

Her son, tall and strong, has become more powerful than his father, but he is very loved by our characters, because he is both more protective and even more tolerant.

He surrounded himself with Mr. Spring, Mrs. Light and Mr. Wild to assist him in his missions of protecting the values of freedom and protecting nature.

Mister God (Father) n°1

46cm x 28cm x 14cm
8,5kg

Chapter 3, the temples of Peace

They also built larger temples to celebrate light and nature. The simplicity and minimalism of "Roman Temple" and "Gothic Temple" are proof that our characters prefer modesty to opulence.

But they also demonstrated their talents as architects by carrying out the restoration of the great 'Roman Cathedral', an old medieval tower in ruins, which they saved from demolition to make a place of celebration for the community’s significant events, like the

the wedding of “Mister Hope” and “Miss You”.

The construction of the great "Modern Tower" marks the climax of their epic of builders: instead of destroying the old tower, they preferred to repair it, preserve it and make it solid to cross the centuries. Our characters prove that it is possible to build their future by harmoniously preserving the roots of their past which are their strength today.

wedding of “Mister Hope” and “Miss You”.