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AMÉLIE DAUTEUR – "Grand Koharu"

AMÉLIE DAUTEUR – "Grand Koharu"

€624,95 EUR
€624,95 EUR
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2026
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Painted ceramic
Height: 25 cm

KOHARU

The word koharu (小春) joins ko (小), "small," to haru (春), "spring," yet names not spring itself but its counterfeit: the term survives today chiefly in koharu-biyori (小春日和), those unseasonably mild days that fall in early winter, when warmth returns as if spring had come back out of season to visit briefly before the cold resumes. The word carries, built into its structure, the knowledge of its own impermanence — a spring that is not spring, borrowed rather than arrived.

The image has a long life in the classical calendar of seasonal words, the kigo used in haiku and waka to fix a poem within the turning year: koharu-biyori appears among the winter terms precisely because its warmth is dated by the cold it interrupts, a beauty legible only against the season it does not belong to. Bashō's contemporaries and successors returned often to this figure of the false or borrowed season, finding in its brevity a sharper sweetness than spring's own arrival provides.

With this totem, Amélie Dauteur takes up a warmth that knows itself to be on loan — not the fullness of a season secured, but its echo, granted briefly and withdrawn. As a given name, koharu has become one of the most favored for Japanese girls in the past two decades, a small spring wished into a life that will, like the season it borrows from, still have to meet its winter.

KOHARU does not ask to be mistaken for permanence. It asks: what warmth have you learned to receive without demanding it stay?
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  • BEFORE R2OT

    Trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he specialized in sculpture, Krzysztof Renes creates works that exist at the boundary between figure and abstraction, tradition and modernity. His works are held in collections in Poland and internationally.

  • WHY DO WE LOVE IT

    Because his work holds two worlds at once — the hand of a craftsman and the mind of an engineer, the human figure and pure abstraction.

  • OUR ADVICE

    Place your sculpture on a nice postument, preferably mixed with darker tones.

Krzysztof Renes

Krzysztof Renes is one of the most talented and recognizable sculptors of the younger generation, who implements and develops his own techniques and reaches for industrial solutions, confronting them with the traditional language of sculpture. All his works are a form of dualism, operating on the border between figure and abstraction, tradition and modernity, culture and
nature. He explores the two-dimensional space in sculpture, where flat and three-dimensional sketching, drawing and sculpture are the same, 2D = 3D.In his works, he looks for cultural features that reflect their origins and boundaries in technological and cultural dimensions. These considerations are particularly evident in the Universale series. And although almost all works refer to the human image, for the author his art is not exclusively figurative art. The processed body here is a carrier of content, symbols or
emotions - a sign in space. Commercially, he collaborates with the sports market and business, creating awards and statuettes for elite events such as the Forbes 50 Most Influential People in Polish Sports or the Imagine Yourself film competition sponsored by the Starak Family Foundation. His sculptures feed art collections in Poland and abroad.

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Krzysztof Renes