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BROKEN OBELISK
2013
DIDIER MARCEL
Sculpture
250 x 60 cm
edition of 3 copies + 1 AP, no. 1/3
He erects a statute to a natural element, the tree. "I imagined itas a sort of relic, which will fall or which will remain. I liked playing onthe notion of impossibility: it seems impossible that the structure will stayin place. The four mirrored sides evoke the cuts of the chainsaw",declares the artist, who is also inspired by the Broken Obelisk ofBarnett Newman installed opposite the Rothko Chapel in Houston.
Didier Marcel's work questions the links between nature and culture,between humans and their environment. It is in the latter that he draws onreferences to compose motifs. He uses the fascination that he has developed forthem to extend the traditional practice in painting of the representation ofthe landscape.
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DIDIER MARCEL
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