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Dan Brown’s exposition marked my memory, because his sculptures do not shape space, but surface. The sculptures shown at the Consortium in Dijon have been only made from an unique model: his wife. That wouldn’t seem to be very important, but the way he placed her body between real life position, Manga figure, showcase mannequin added to the diminution of her body size, led to a strong impact. It looked as if the sculptures where coming out of a space with two dimensions, not three, or four or how much as you like. You can call it an idealisation and it is certainly one, but it is an idealisation that gives you the liberty to imagine what you want and which do not led to a “Weltanschauung” like the work of other sculptors, classical or neoclassical ones. Often they are working on statues. Dan Brown is working on sculptures. The exhibition in the consortium showed also some extremely fine drawings of little format, especially a scull looking at you as if it came alive on you out of a page from a book.