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Cécile RaynalEros by Cécile Raynal - Portrait of mythological figure, ceramic sculpture2020
2020
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Eros is a unique smoke-fired sandstone sculpture by French contemporary artist Cécile Raynal, dimensions are 24 × 53 × 23 cm (9.4 × 20.9 × 9.1 in).
Greek mythology's Eros, the God of Love, is portrayed here as a bipedal creature that is equal parts wolf and man. The duplicity of this well-known mythological figure, who was alternately depicted by ancient authors as a primordial god or as a demonic figure, was the subject chosen by Cécile Raynal. She took her cues from the philosopher Socrates, who saw Eros as a messy, cunning, and treacherous character who wanders in search of Beauty.
Cécile Raynal uses sculpture as a way of exploring the world, between documentary and fiction. Thus she often sets up her workshop in remote, forgotten or marginal places, that she goes over and then reconstructs in clay. A prison, a retirement home, a hospital, a convent, a cargo-ship… are among the places in which she invites the inhabitants to pose for her, so as to sculpt their portraits and capture these rare encounters.
- Creator:Cécile Raynal (1966, French)
- Creation Year:2020
- Dimensions:Height: 9.45 in (24 cm)Width: 20.87 in (53 cm)Depth: 9.06 in (23 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Paris, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU803113006872
Cécile Raynal
Whether human or animal, Cécile Raynal’s figures are a way to explore the world. The artist travels to remote, forgotten or marginal places immortalising in clay life stories that she brings back to her studio. Her work has been exhibited in prestigious museums such as the Musée des Arts et Métiers (Paris, 2018) and is the subject of ambitious public commissions such as the bronze sculpture of Winston Churchill in Cap-d’Ail (France). “The result of chance or sought-after encounters, my work starts with the sculpted portrait, a totemic record of each of these confrontations, and builds itself on the complicity, the exchanges and the correspondence resulting from them.”
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