Neither to use
nor to bow, but to serve —
the master beam
Ossature is a vertical oil painting. It shows, from below, the frame of a rural building: dark beams, eaves and a pale façade, cut by the narrow format of the canvas.
As its title suggests, the work focuses on the wooden skeleton of the building. Sébastien Bonin studies vernacular architecture through its joints and local materials, a carpenter's know-how handed down and remade identically.