Didier Guillon states: “Art is our idea of beauty, which appeals to the senses and emotions. The artist is the person who has a sense of beauty and can create a work of art. The Ego is the self-awareness of the artistic self, the source of inspiration for the creation of beauty. In creating L’Homme Pensant, I wanted to reflect on these definitions. It is a distorted representation of beauty, the impossible result of creation, a kind of non-beauty. It had to be a kind of inner cry, an inner discomfort, hence the distorted physiognomy of the character of the Ego. The installation entitled L’Homme Pensant consists of ten sculptures representing busts of men screaming. The idea is to reverse the concept of classical beauty: the artist, who was used to having Beauty as his primary objective, is now called upon to represent the absence of beauty itself. Unlike traditional plaster cast galleries that present pure, white human figures, with harmonious features and proportions, these men scream, trapped in unfamiliar bodies that are not recognized as their own. Covered in gold paint, the busts are finally refined with an entirely new quality.”