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AMÉLIE DAUTEUR – "Petit Himari"

AMÉLIE DAUTEUR – "Petit Himari"

€542,95 EUR
€542,95 EUR
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2026
1/12
Painted ceramic
Height: 23 cm

HIMARI

The name himari is most often written 陽葵, joining hi (陽), "sun," "sunlight," to aoi (葵), the hollyhock or mallow — here given the special nanori reading mari, a reading that exists only within names, not in ordinary vocabulary. The character 葵 belongs to a family of plants long associated in Japanese with heliotropism, the turning of a flower's face to follow the sun's course; the word himawari (向日葵), sunflower, is built from the same logic, "facing toward the sun." Himari inherits this movement without stating it outright — sun and flower joined, the gesture of turning implied rather than named.

The name has no deep classical lineage; it belongs to the wave of given names that rose sharply in Japan from the 2000s onward, favored for the warmth of its sound and the brightness of its constituent characters rather than for any inherited literary weight. In this it differs from names like koharu or akari, which carry the sediment of centuries of poetic use — himari is closer to a wish spoken freshly, unweighted by precedent.

With this totem, Amélie Dauteur takes up a devotion without fixed object: the flower that turns not because it chooses a direction, but because it cannot do otherwise. Where jun holds inward and jin turns toward another person, himari turns toward something larger and impersonal, following a light it did not choose.

HIMARI does not ask what you face. It asks: what do you turn toward, without deciding to?
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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