Galerie Alfart-LBK & Métranve Sculptures

Bernard Métranve moved to Barbizon in 2004, following a tradition the village has sustained for nearly two centuries: artists arriving, staying, and making the place their own. His work — bronze and resin sculptures exploring the relationship between natural forms, the human body, and abstraction — sits in a very different register from the 19th-century landscape painters who made Barbizon famous, but the impulse is the same. The gallery he runs with his wife Maria Elena Thiéry, who serves as director, is one of the few spaces in the village devoted to living contemporary artists rather than the historical canon.