During a recent random stroll, we discovered public art newly placed on the Left Bank.
The works by French artist Bruno Catalano are bronze sculptures depicting persons -- but with a twist. Parts of the sculpture are missing. The sculptures are described as "torn travelers". Pictured below is a set of three related sculptures.
(The subject, Pierre David, is probably a French photographer.)
Below is another sculpture representing the dock workers of Marseille, where the artist first began sculpting.
Another sculpture depicts Vincent Van Gogh holding a suitcase and carrying a finished painting on his back.
 |
| View of the back of the sculpture. The painting depicted might be Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background by Vincent Van Gogh (1889). |
According to a gallery representing the artist, "The universal theme of travel has always inspired Bruno Catalano. Since he started to knead clay, hundreds of “Travellers” went out of his feverish hands, populating his studio while awaiting an unknown destination. His first works were more conventional, they stayed tied to the earth element and the series that followed have gained in expressiveness and finesse. These astonishing works, with their dashed bodies and the determined lack of volume, invite the viewer to mentally reconstruct the missing parts of the sculptures. Van Gogh goes away, with a suitcase in his hand, to the Provencal countryside, but he is in an almost abstract lightness, open to wind and light. Is it not our destiny that Bruno Catalano gives us to see and meditate on? Through his statuary he replays the adventure of mankind, always in-between two shores, repelling all the boundaries." (Galeries-Bartoux.com)
P.S. While strolling one day, we passed by Galeries Bartoux and spotted to more of Catalano's creations.
No comments:
Post a Comment