Hommage à César
Category
SculptureMaterial
Stainless steelDate
2011Dimensions
46 cm x 21 cm x 12 cmMake an offer of
Artwork information
Category
SculptureMaterial
Stainless steelDate
2011Dimensions
46 cm x 21 cm x 12 cmSignature
Signed and datedProof(s) of authenticity
Sculpture bought directly from the artistState of conservation
Very goodLocation
Canton of Vaud, SwitzerlandDescription
With this sculpture, Nathalie Descoster has paid a vibrant homage to the famous French sculptor César, taking up the principle and rectangular shape of his "compressions", and adding at the top, a small character characteristic of her art.
Provenance
Swiss private collection
The artist

Bio
Born in 1965 in the north of France, Nathalie Decoster trained in the 1980s at the public studio in Neuilly, but also in the sculpture workshops of the Arts Décoratifs and the public studios of the city of Paris. In 1988, a Spanish classical sculptor taught her his techniques.
In 1992, the artist set up a barn in the countryside to become her workshop. It is in this place that she made an astonishing discovery, indeed, she piled up barrel circles there, and one day she decided to make her own characters evolve in circles that represent the passing of time. The artist declined this concept in series and this type of sculpture became her emblem.
Nathalie Decoster tackles different themes in her creations: man's relationship with time, different ways of sharing thought, comparisons between human life and nature, intimacy...