Liegende, Gesicht haltend (Fille étendue se tenant le visage)
1998
Liegende, Gesicht haltend
(Fille étendue se tenant le visage)
1998
In her drawings and sculptures, the Japanese artist Leiko Ikemura has developed a highly personal style combining elements of traditional Japanese culture with others from the European avant-garde. In the late 1990 she perfected her terra cotta sculpture technique in a series of very large format pieces, to which this work belongs. She accords great importance to the void, which she deliberately makes visible. Playing on the ideas of presence and absence, this reclining figure – headless, legless and more or less abstract in form – is identifiable as a human body thanks to the hands and the lower face that confer on it a troublingly animal air.
| Domain | Sculpture |
|---|---|
| Techniques | Terre cuite patinée |
| Dimensions | 47 x 96 x 33 cm |
| Acquisition | Don du Cercle International de la Société des |
| Inventory no. | AM 2017-10 |
Detailed description
| Artist |
Leiko Ikemura
(1951, Japon) |
|---|---|
| Main title | Liegende, Gesicht haltend (Fille étendue se tenant le visage) |
| Other title | S-98-16 |
| Creation date | 1998 |
| Domain | Sculpture |
| Techniques | Terre cuite patinée |
| Dimensions | 47 x 96 x 33 cm |
| Acquisition | Don du Cercle International de la Société des |
| Collection area | Arts Plastiques - Contemporain |
| Inventory no. | AM 2017-10 |
Bibliography
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