Christopher Henry - Insolent Par Nature n°9

Made from a steel beam, carefully transformed into a singular work of art. Each piece is a unique creation. All of it protected by a satin varnish, ensuring a durable finish. This creation blends recycling with artistic expression, perfect for adding a touch of originality to your interior or to complete an art collection.

The Pillars:

I chose to work with I-beams (IPN), those metal beams from our urban environment, raw elements that make up and support the buildings of our cities. Usually hidden behind walls, they still contribute to the very structure of our surroundings. They bear, support, and enable constructions to stand.
By using a genuine beam as a support, I bring a fragment of city, a piece of architecture and urban planning into my work. An industrial element, marked by its history and its primary function, which I repurpose to give it a new artistic dimension.
This choice came naturally to accommodate my portraits of women.
Because, just like these beams are the invisible pillars of our buildings, we all have in our lives a woman who represents a pillar. A mother, a grandmother, a sister, a partner, a friend… a woman who supports, accompanies, protects, or simply helps us stay upright.
Through this encounter between raw steel, the urban world, and the feminine portrait, I create a parallel between the structure that supports our cities and these women who support our lives.
Each IPN becomes much more than just a support. It becomes a fragment of urban planning transformed into a work of art, bearing the face and the symbolic history of a woman.
Because our cities have their pillars. And in our lives too, there are women who help us stand tall.

Characteristics:

Materials: Recycled steel beam, spray paint, satin varnish, Egyptian 50-pound notes

Techniques: Spray / Acrylic

Piece dimensions: 29.5 x 10 x 10 cm

Box dimensions: 20 x 10 x 10 cm

Signed and numbered on the back by the artist / Unique

Certificate of authenticity

The artwork will be securely packaged

About the artist:

Born in Lyon, Christopher Henry, known as SIN, is a French self-taught artist whose work sits at the crossroads of street art, pop art and contemporary painting. Emerging from graffiti culture, which he discovered in his adolescence, he has spent over twenty years developing a personal, instinctive, and identifiable universe, where painting, photography, screen printing, collage, and various techniques from urban art meet.
His work draws energy from the street, but quickly moves beyond traditional graffiti codes to explore a broader, more personal artistic practice. Christopher Henry develops a visual language where feminine portraits, colors, typography, symbols, references to pop culture, and spontaneous graphic interventions mingle. His work navigates between technical mastery and freedom of gesture, between contemporary aesthetics and urban influences.
Over the years, his work has been presented in France and internationally, notably in Paris, Hong Kong, Bratislava, Eindhoven, and Miami. An artist with multiple practices, he works on canvases as well as on unexpected supports: monumental walls, objects, skateboards, car bodies, or artistic installations.
The feminine figure occupies a central place in his work. Through his portraits and his various series, Christopher Henry seeks to reveal the strength, sensuality, fragility, and singularity of his subjects. His universe, sometimes provocative, always self-assured, questions the gaze cast on the body, femininity, and the codes of contemporary society.
Creator of the concept DollArt Erotic, he continues today a unique artistic research, blending erotism, pop culture, street art, and silkscreen, while developing numerous participatory and social projects. For more than seventeen years, he has also used art as a tool of transmission, expression, and connection through workshops and mural projects carried out with diverse audiences.
Through a free and plural work, Christopher Henry asserts a borderless artistic vision, where every support becomes a field of expression and where urban art dialogues with more intimate, popular, and contemporary worlds.