History of Geometry, n°3

2007

Shoes, alabaster blocks, 20 x 30 x 15 cm unframed, Private Collection

A composition of pieces of alabaster of varying sizes, cut by the artist, arranged in women's shoes in such a way as to fill the free space. The shoes formulate an absent female presence, for which an approximate construction of simple parallelepipeds is substituted – as if it were a question of approaching the void through geometry. A material used in sketches, alabaster makes it possible to take the measure of the sculpted subject and begin to investigate a shape. By the position of the shoes which suggests a contrapposto, he alludes to the Greek canon and classical statuary.