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Madonna and Child
2012
Sigalit LANDAU
Sculpture
60 x 72 x 72 cm (off base)
This sculpture is part of the "Madonna and Child" series: calm, peaceful sculptures of various dimensions, in polished marble, in which tender cultivation of the land (a recurrent theme in the artist's work) becomes something else: the artist raises the question of sharing, of love.
She turns the "deposit of experience", as Virginia Woolf calls it, into marble. From lovers' bodies, there remains an emblem of maternity, Madonna and Child, abstracted to a breastfeeding cushion that takes the form of a dissected Mobius strip.
This radical simplicity generates a force of momentum, of possibility, like Brancusi's bird on its plinth. Another crossing of boundaries. The bodies are there to begin another story, to unsettle the fixities and limits of life. To continue.
She turns the "deposit of experience", as Virginia Woolf calls it, into marble. From lovers' bodies, there remains an emblem of maternity, Madonna and Child, abstracted to a breastfeeding cushion that takes the form of a dissected Mobius strip.
This radical simplicity generates a force of momentum, of possibility, like Brancusi's bird on its plinth. Another crossing of boundaries. The bodies are there to begin another story, to unsettle the fixities and limits of life. To continue.
Sigalit LANDAU
Israël
Born in 1969
A sculptor and video artist, Sigalit Landau is profoundly marked by human relationships and the relationship between man and earth, especially in Israel. Her feel for the sculptural universe of Camille Claudel allows her to come close to the intimate trials of a female artist in the throes of creation.
Artwork of
Sigalit Landau
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