about Guillaume Campredon

Guillaume Campredon is a French sculptor born in Versailles in 1991. He works in direct-cut limestone and granite. 
He discovered sculpture through astrology, while studying semiotics. The practice of sculpture was a revelation that he has continued to develop ever since on a self-taught basis.

His doctoral thesis, defended in 2021 at the Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas and entitled “Pour une théorie du signe augmenté, sémiotiques du monstre en société” (“For a theory of the augmented sign, semiotics of the monster in society”), nourishes his aesthetic research in a complementary way.

He sees sculpture as a contemporary mythography, and stone as the perennial support for an almost timeless iconography. His work is a confluence, drawing here and there from the innumerable reservoir of signs produced by man, with a predilection for antiquity and the Middle Ages.

In 2023, he is one of the laureates of the Académie des savoir-faire Hermès dedicated to “stone”. The program, supported by the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès, aims to explore the material stone, from its formation to its uses, in a collective intelligence approach.
In addition to his solo exhibitions, he works with designers, craftsmen, architects and art galleries, always with a view to aesthetic exploration and a love of the material.