Alban Lanore is born in Paris in 1966. He works and live in Touraine, away from the artistic world. He develops there, in total freedom, his art practice apart from art movements. Travels and encounters gave him the vocation of sculpture. He considers himself as an autodidact sculptor.
After conceiving sets for attraction parks, he created alongside is wife, Nanou Grimault ((† 2016) a vegetal decoration company that led them to travel around the world.
In 1998, a journey in Gabon changed their lifes both on an artistic level and an ethical level, amazed by the beauty and richness of the forests, Alban dranw inspiration to another way of creation. After Gabon, it’s the amazon forest, especially forest concessions, that he is often prospect in order to collect only the falls.
Important encounters punctuated is sculptor background, the first one that he met as a teenager, was Jean-Jacques Popille, well know from the art brut amateurs, then Frans KRAJCBERG an aredent defender on the nature preservation and writer alongside Pierre RESTANY of the manifesto ‘’Manifeste du Naturalisme Intégral’’, that encourage him in his path, and then Vincent BATBEDAT that brought him to a constructed art practice.
