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Noir Origine,
2006
Éric Théret
Sculpture : granite, stone
25 x 35 x 31 cm 9.8 x 13.8 x 12.2 inch
$11,700
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Engraved signature
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25 x 35 x 31 cm 9.8 x 13.8 x 12.2 inch Height x Width x Depth
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The sculpture can be displayed outdoors
Artwork sold in perfect condition
Artwork location: France
Composed of a block of black diabase, it serves as a pretext for a play on materials. Between polished and raw materials.
This sculpture imposes its silent presence.
A sculpted monolith, it oscillates between brutality and delicacy. The volumes, sometimes raw, sometimes polished and softened, respond to each other in a balance of tension and grace.
The raw material rubs shoulders with the smooth skin of the polished stone: the diabase, rough like the original rock, becomes a mirror where the hand caresses it.
When day breaks, the light glides over the dark surface and reveals the edges and raw material.
This play of light in turn sculpts the work, metamorphosing it over time, imbuing it with a motionless movement.
A symbol of duality, it embodies the encounter of mineral chaos and human order, of the geological past and artistic intention. It speaks of erosion and memory, of contained strength and restrained emotion.
It is an engraved silence, a word of stone, a breath frozen in diabase.
This sculpture presents a geometric form, its distinct edges evoking brute strength while maintaining a refined elegance. The smooth surfaces contrast with the rough, irregular textures of the broken lines at the top, symbolizing the confrontation between perfection and imperfection. The work plays with shadows and light, transforming its silhouette depending on the angle of observation. Its imposing, minimalist presence inspires profound reflection on the nature of matter and the interplay of natural elements. This piece, with its complex simplicity and enigmatic form, captures the paradoxical essence of stability and change, embodying a duality that stimulates the viewer's imagination. It demonstrates the artist's talent for transforming granite into visual poetry.
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Galerie Isabelle Dedieu • France
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For Éric Théret, monumentality is never an end in itself. It is not the expression of power or heroic impulse, but the result of a slow and demanding dialogue between the human hand and the age-old material. In his granite works – notably, a series of arches weighing up to 18 tons – an almost metaphysical tension is established between the density of the material and the lightness of the sculptural gesture. Théret does not tame the stone; he questions it, crosses it, listens to it.
At the crossroads of megalithic sculpture traditions and contemporary experiments with space, his work shares an implicit connection with the Carnac menhirs as much as with Naum Gabo's "Spatial Constructions." But where Gabo uses emptiness as an extension of volume, Théret uses mass to reveal emptiness: the space between the arches, the interstices left open, become thresholds, places of passage in both a symbolic and physical sense.
His approach is reminiscent of Richard Serra's, in the idea that sculpture is an environment to inhabit, not an object to contemplate. But unlike Serra, whose steel plates impose a form of physical intimidation, Théret instead opens doors in the material. He doesn't close off space: he invites it in. Granite, heavy and opaque, becomes a breathing medium for him.
In his glass paste collaborations with Daum, we find this same obsession with the passage, light, and memory of the elements. Glass, as opposed to granite, completes Théret's visual alphabet: transparency versus opacity, fluidity versus solidity. A dialectic that could be read as a discreet echo of the work of Giuseppe Penone, and more broadly of Arte Povera, in their shared desire to reconnect with the world's raw materials.
Éric Théret's work then poses this essential question: what can sculpture still do in the era of the virtualization of reality? His answer is clear: it can still anchor. In a volatile world, his stones hold firm. They mark the territory, offer landmarks. Not monuments to the past, but foundations for perception.
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