Maternité MAMAN Motherhood, 1988
Guy Call

Sculpture : terracotta

16 x 15 x 14 cm 6.3 x 5.9 x 5.5 inch

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Guy Callandreau dit Guy Call est un sculpteur français né à Oradour-sur-Vayres en 1940. Lise Cormery fait son portrait dans son livre « L’Art de l’Ecole de Paris d’Après-Guerre, Editions Michelangelo, Paris, 2020 » écrit que : « Guy Callandreau dit Guy Call étudie à L'Ecole Nationale des Arts Appliqués de Paris dans les années 60 avec les professeurs et sculpteurs Etienne Martin (1913-1995), Volti (1915-1989), Jacques Zwobada (1900-1967). Ses sculptures comprennent trois périodes, la plus ancienne est "La période Archaïque, dîtes d'Archétype, Ancestrale", elle reprend les voyages intérieurs de l'artiste dans l'esprit des grands mythes du monde. Ainsi sa "Déesse Mère à l'enfant", au pied de laquelle son enfant sexué se repose, est constituée de deux sculptures qui s'emboitent. "Le Dieu Soleil et l'Enfant" porte son enfant sur son dos dans la position d'un enfant dans le ventre de sa mère, comme dans le rite ancestral de la couvade, observé depuis l'Antiquité dans certaines sociétés où l'homme accompagne la grossesse de sa femme. L'œuvre est aussi constituée de deux sculptures distinctes qui s'emboitent parfaitement l'une dans l'autre. "La Période Noire", est constituée de Terra Cotta ou bronzes, où ses modèles sont chauves, avec des femmes, lascives et le plus souvent callipyges. La "Paternité" dans sa "Période Noire" nous rappelle que c'est l'enfant qui, par sa naissance, guide son père et non l'inverse. Dans "La Période Brune" qui commence en 1988, les modèles féminins, ses Vénus callipyges s'affinent et sont dotés de longs cheveux de sirène. Pour sa première exposition personnelle en 1988 à la Galerie de Lise Cormery, Paris, l'écrivain Jacqueline Kelen de France Culture, écrit : " Guy Callandreau, dit Guy Call nous entraine dans le grand jeu de la mise au monde. Si un artiste avec humilité et audace ne refait pas le monde, mérite-t-il ce nom ? Ses sculptures de terra cotta noire, brune, enfumée, plus souvent que de bronze, semblent toutes mimer et continuer la Création, et couver un secret immense et innocent. Elles ont souvent le crâne lisse des idoles cycladiques, l'œil grand ouvert des divinités sumériennes, fixées sur l'éternel, elles ont les rondeurs de l'amour, l'insouciance enfantine, la puissance des déesses primordiales. Généreuses, lascives, rêveuses, enjouées, recueillies, elles font le chant de la terre et le frisson du ciel. Elles savent qu'il faut pétrir en soi beaucoup d'attente et de silence pour faire naitre l'enfant intérieur, la sphère de cristal. Ses sculptures expriment à la fois la gratitude envers la Terre qui nous a donné corps, le labeur émerveillé de soi-même créer, et - plus rare, plus haut- de s'enfanter dans l'invisible. Ce parcours en trois temps - exister, créer, être - s'accomplit dans l'offrande, le détachement, l'envol. Mais demain, mortelle, la caresse demeure."
SOLO SHOWS : 1988 1989 1990 Galerie Lise Cormery Art et Com 1990 FIAC SAGA avec Galerie Lise Cormery 1991 Galerie Lise Cormery en permanence jusqu'à l'An 2000. EDITIONS L'Agend'ART, Guide de l'Art Contemporain, éditeur Lise Cormery 1989 1990 1991, L'ART et l'Adresse, éditeur Lise Cormery PRIX 1992 TROPHEE du CCFD, Comité Contre la Faim et pour le Développement et Crédit Coopératif, avec La Galerie Lise Cormery à Paris Le Bourget avec 7 sculptures "Terre d'Avenir" en Terra Cotta et verre soufflé.
L'œuvre de Guy Call sera exposée à Paris en 1991 et 1992 avec "La Déesse Mère et son enfant", "Le Dieu Soleil et son enfant" Période d'Archétype, et "Paternité" de la période noire, lors des évènements internationaux sous l'égide du Président Mitterrand et du Maire de Paris Jacques Chirac, car l'artiste fait partie de la sélection de la France des Olympiades des Arts organisées par la Galerie Lise Cormery pour le Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français à l'occasion des Jeux Olympiques d'hiver de 1992. Ceci faisait suite aux Olympiades des Arts de Séoul où la ville fonde à cette occasion un musée de peinture et un musée de sculptures avec des artistes invités venus du monde entier pour exposer et représenter l'art du XXe siècle. »

Guy Callandreau, pseudonym Guy Call is a French sculptor born in 1940. Lise Cormery, in her book “The Art of Post-War Ecole de Paris”, Michelangelo Publications, Paris, 2021, “Guy Callandreau studies in the 60's at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Appliqués de Paris, his professors are Etienne Martin (1913-1995), Volti (1915-1989), Zwobada (1900-1967). We classify his sculptures in three periods. First "The Archaic Period", "Mother Earth and child", two Terra Cotta sculptures becoming one, "The Sun God and Child", two Terra Cotta sculptures becoming one. Second, "The black period" such as "Fatherhood" with wide-eyed bald men and women. In "The Brown Period" starting in 1988, his former Kallipygian Venus become thinner and have very long hair of sirens.
For his first Solo Show in 1988 at Gallery Lise Cormery, the writer Jacqueline Kelen, France Culture, writes a text on his art.
SOLO SHOWS : 1988 1989 1990 Galerie Lise Cormery Art et Com 1990 FIAC SAGA with Galerie Lise Cormery 1991-2000 Galerie Lise Cormery. EDITIONS L'Agend'ART, Contemporary Art Guide, Lise Cormery publishing 1989 1990 1991, L'ART et l'Adresse, Lise Cormery publishing 1992 CCFD PRIZE, Comité Contre la Faim et pour le Développement Crédit Coopératif Bank Paris Le Bourget 7 sculptures "Terre d'Avenir" Terra Cotta and hand blown glass.
In 1991 and 1992 his sculptures "Mother Earth and child" "God Of Sun and Child" and "Fatherhood" were exhibited during the Art Olympiads under the High Patronage of French President Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac, Mayor of Paris, since Guy Call belongs to the French Selection of Art Olympiads organized by Lise Cormery Gallery for the French Olympic Committee. This international event was following the famous 1988 Art Olympiads in Seoul with its sculpture and painting museums created for the event in order to invite and show the art of major international artists of the century.”
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Guy Callandreau, pseudonym Guy Call is a French sculptor born in 1940. He studies in the 60's at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Appliqués de Paris, his professors are Etienne Martin (1913-1995), Volti (1915-1989), Zwobada (1900-1967). We classify his sculptures in three periods. First "The Archaic Period", "Mother Earth and child", two Terra Cotta sculptures becoming one, "The Sun God and Child", two Terra Cotta sculptures becoming one. Second, "The black period" such as "Fatherhood" with wide-eyed bald men and women. In "The Brown Period" starting in 1988, his former Kallipygian Venus become thinner and have very long hair of sirens. 

For his first Solo Show in 1988 at Gallery Lise Cormery, the writer Jacqueline Kelen, France Culture, writes a text on his art.

SOLO SHOWS : 1988 1989 1990 Galerie Lise Cormery Art et Com 1990 FIAC SAGA with Galerie Lise Cormery 1991-2000 Galerie Lise Cormery. EDITIONS L'Agend'ART, Contemporary Art Guide, Lise Cormery publishing 1989 1990 1991, L'ART et l'Adresse, Lise Cormery publishing 1992 CCFD PRIZE, Comité Contre la Faim et pour le Développement Crédit Coopératif Bank Paris Le Bourget 7 sculptures "Terre d'Avenir" Terra Cotta and hand blown glass.

In 1991 and 1992 his sculptures "Mother Earth and child" "God Of Sun and Child" and "Fatherhood" were exhibited during the Art Olympiads under the High Patronage of French President Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac, Mayor of Paris, since Guy Call belongs to the French Selection of Art Olympiads organized by Lise Cormery Gallery for the French Olympic Committee. This international event was following the famous 1988 Art Olympiads in Seoul with its sculpture and painting museums created for the event in order to invite and show the art of major international artists of the century.

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