Tour B, 2001

by Nisa Chevèneme

Sculpture : bronze 26.8 x 5.5 x 4.1 inch

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Type

Unique work

Signature

Hand-signed by artist

Authenticity

Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the gallery

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Medium

Dimensions cm inch

26.8 x 5.5 x 4.1 inch Height x Width x Depth

Display

The sculpture can be displayed outdoors


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Nude

Human body

Tower

Tower of Babel

Artwork sold in perfect condition

Artwork location: France

« Tour B » 2001
Wax bronze signed and numbered on the back M 1/1 Unique piece
Cast iron from Romain Batelier


Nisa lives in the Bronze Age. Only bronze, which arises from a hot flow and a lost wax. A bronze which is worked, which rubs, scratches, chisels, sands. A bronze that oxidizes and takes the wrinkles of time as surprises - often happy ones.

In the Bronze Age Nisa built her buildings and called her people. They come, faithful, to his meetings. On a massive plinth, from which they can hardly be distinguished, the first lookouts stand… What are they looking at? I do not know. They are in good order and they are waiting. They are ready. They have all of humanity in front of them, it seems already that they see it, that perhaps also, silently, they apprehend it.

This order is suddenly upset. Babel sees its proud tower swept away in a whirlwind, a tornado of human bodies writhing in a powerful wind. In Babel, we no longer speak, we shout. Threat on the base. Terror invisible in the calm of the watchtowers, during the night.

It is impossible to say whether the collapse of Babel followed the erection of the towers, or before it. Whether it's a before or after. Of a beginning, of an end. Are the Lookouts waiting for something they don't know, but vaguely dread, or the return of a legendary calamity, of which the ancients have told them?

No answer, except in a book that is there, the great book of time, the master of eras. A bronze book, of course. We entered, we looked and saw, then we left: we did not come out of our age.

- Jean-Claude Carrière
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Galerie Maryam Ahi • France

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Nisa Chevèneme

Nisa Chevèneme

France  • 1944

2019 

Exhibition Sculpture/Painting duo Chevènement - Toulouse - Galerie Just Jaeckin from 18 to 31 March 2019 - 19, Rue Guénégaud 75006 Paris

2018 

From sculpture to jewelry: Nisa Chevènenement will exhibit from September 7 to 18 at the Orangerie du Sénat, Jardin du Luxembourg, 19 Bis rue Vaugirard Paris 6.

Les Flâneries d'Art Contemporain, Aix-en-Provence, France.

2013

Mairie du VI, Paris 6, France.

Les Flâneries d'Art Contemporain, Aix-en-Provence, France.

2012

Arnoux Gallery, Paris 6, France.

Jewelry exhibition, Galerie Cipango, Paris 6, France.

Exhibition of bronzes and paintings, Musée Ingres, Montauban, France.

2011

Exhibition with Camilla Adami, Médiathèque d'Argentan, France.

Art en Capital, Grand Palais, Paris 8, France.

Gallery Ecart, Paris 3, France.

Regards Croisés, Kartner Gallery, Paris 6, France.

2010

Regards Croisés, Galerie de l'Europe, Paris 6, France.

Salon d'Automne, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris 1, France.

Parcours Saint-Germain, Paris 6, France.

Art en Capital at the Grand Palais, Paris 8, France.

Honorary prize for sculpture: ADAGP.

Bronze Prize of the French Artists.

Villa des Arts, Rabbat, Morocco.

2009

Villa des Arts, Casablanca, Morocco.

Bab Mansour Gallery, French Institute Gallery, Meknes.

Delacroix Gallery (French Institute of Tangier), Tangier, Morocco.

Group exhibition, place Saint-Sulpice, Paris 6, France.

Exhibition of jewels and sculptures, Arthus Bertrand, Paris 6, France.

Biennial of sculpture, Maison Caillebotte, Yerres, France.

City of Evian, France.

House Elsa Triolet-Aragon, Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, France.

Athinaïs Cultural Center, Athens, Greece.

2008

Salon d'Automne, Grand Prix de la Sculpture by the Taylor Foundation, Paris, France.

Beijing Biennale, China.

Edifici Miramar, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain.

2007

Jean de Mery Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.

2006

Marlborough Gallery, Monaco.

Espace Olympe de Gouge, Paris 11, France.

Museum of Fine Arts of Mulhouse, Mulhouse, 

France.

2005

Unique Piece Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon.

Beijing Biennale, China.

2004

Patrick Anciaux Gallery, Brussels.

Flora Jansem Gallery, Avenue Matignon, Paris 8, France.

Marlborough Gallery, Monaco.

2003

Espace Saint-Honoré, Avenue Matignon, Paris 8, France.

XXVIIth ACAM Salon.

2002

Les Jeux dans l'Art, Espace Bellevue, Biarritz, France.

Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris 8, France.

Villa Béatrice Ernéa, Anglet, France.

Marlborough Gallery, Monaco.

2001

The Armonia Dell'istinto, Milan, Italy.

Loft Gallery, Paris 6, France.

Museum of Fine Arts, Tapeï, Taiwan.

2000

Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris 8, France.

Loft Gallery, Paris 6, France.

1999

French Cultural Institute, Mexico City. Salon Violet, Paris, France. International Fair of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France. Arnoux Gallery, Paris 6, France.

1998

Contemporary Art Fair of Shanghai, China.

Gallery of Old Lyon, Lyon, France.

Adam Gallery, Athens, Greece.

1997

Arnoux Gallery, Paris 6, France.

Saga, Paris, France.

1996

Dionne Gallery, Paris 6, France.

1995

Sculpture Gallery, Paris 6, France.

1994

Sculpture Gallery, Madrid, Spain.

1993

Expositum Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.

1992

Visconti Gallery, Paris 6, France.

Sculpture Gallery, Madrid, Spain.


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