“Whatever the material used – stone, marble, bronze or copper – Vincent Rousseau ‘s sculpture is immediately recognizable by its sobriety. Yet far from aligning itself with an inconsistent minimalism, it rests on a clear and firmprinciple : nothing too much, nothing useless, easy or eye-catching should weigh the work down.

And if reduction reduction is still possible, if the quintessence of the subject is the only and by eliminating all superfluous effects, the sculptor will go that far, to the core, to the idea idea and its most luminous embodiment.