Jean Pierre Tiran
Jean Tiran was born 1979 in Cape Town, South Africa. He had a passion for art from an early age, and mentored by his father, also a painter, pursued painting and sculpture as subjects at school.
 
Following matriculation in 1997, he traveled in the United Kingdom, where he worked and investigated local bronze casting facilities. He returned to South Africa in 2001 and became involved with Bronze Age, a Simons Town based art foundry where he still works and casts his own sculptures.
 
Tiran rejects the common foundry practice of taking a mould of his original sculpture and casting multiple editions of it. He prefers to produce unique pieces. Each sculpture is carefully modeled in wax and then cast directly in metal, using the lost wax process. This approach is direct but also risky, since the only original can be destroyed during casting, should an error occur. His figures reflect something of this combination of spontaneity and calculated risk.
 
Jean’s main interest lies in expressing metaphorical ideas in studies of the male and female figures.
 
By exaggerating or stripping the body of muscles the human figure becomes haunting in it’s crude beauty; a very mature style for a young sculptor.
 
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