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| Quiz #492- September 27, 2015 |
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| He's not famous... he's a real no body! Bizarre statues depicting 'invisible' men that play tricks on the eye Sculptures pictured here are the work of French artist Bruno Catalano The 53-year-old says the invisible bodies represent a world citizen by Leon Watson www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article |
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Ever feel like you've forgotten something? These people might.
The amazing sculptures pictured here look like they're missing vital organs. They are
work of French artist Bruno Catalano who says the invisible bodies represent a world
citizen.
Mr Catalano, 53, is originally from Morocco but a lifetime of travel as a sailor has
inspired these quirky pieces of art, which often cause passers-by to do a double-take.
Now living in Marseille, France, Mr. Catalano and his daughter Emilie work to create
masterpieces like these.
Made out of bronze, Mr. Catalano starts the process by carving the characters from
clay - and will then spend a further 15 days working on them.
Mr. Catalano said: I have travelled a lot and left Morocco when I was 12 years old. I
felt that a part of me was gone and will never come back.
The amazing sculptures pictured here look like they're missing vital organs. They are
work of French artist Bruno Catalano who says the invisible bodies represent a world
citizen.
Mr Catalano, 53, is originally from Morocco but a lifetime of travel as a sailor has
inspired these quirky pieces of art, which often cause passers-by to do a double-take.
Now living in Marseille, France, Mr. Catalano and his daughter Emilie work to create
masterpieces like these.
Made out of bronze, Mr. Catalano starts the process by carving the characters from
clay - and will then spend a further 15 days working on them.
Mr. Catalano said: I have travelled a lot and left Morocco when I was 12 years old. I
felt that a part of me was gone and will never come back.
From years of being a sailor, I was always leaving different countries and places each
time and it's a process that we all go through.
'I feel like this occurs several times during life and of course everyone has missing
pieces in his or her life that he wont find again.
'So the meaning can be different for everyone, but to me the sculptures represent a
world citizen.
'I get inspiration mainly from people around me - familly, friends, neighbours, even
colleagues or strangers. My other source of inspiration is the travel.'
Mr Catalano has been sculpting for 20 years and often works with others in an art
foundry when making big sculptures.
An exhibition will take place in Marseille in September, to celebrate its status as the
European Capital of Culture 2013 with ten life-size sculptures exhibited at the port of
Marseille.
time and it's a process that we all go through.
'I feel like this occurs several times during life and of course everyone has missing
pieces in his or her life that he wont find again.
'So the meaning can be different for everyone, but to me the sculptures represent a
world citizen.
'I get inspiration mainly from people around me - familly, friends, neighbours, even
colleagues or strangers. My other source of inspiration is the travel.'
Mr Catalano has been sculpting for 20 years and often works with others in an art
foundry when making big sculptures.
An exhibition will take place in Marseille in September, to celebrate its status as the
European Capital of Culture 2013 with ten life-size sculptures exhibited at the port of
Marseille.
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| Comments by Quizmaster Megan Neilsen |
I rather like the seated man at brunocatalano.com/sculpture-bronze/Le-Napolitain....
He's organised a bit differently from most of the other Voyageurs. That said, I suspect
that many will vote for Le Grand Van Gogh. While the Voyageurs are typically lifesize
sculptures Van Gogh (and his twin at the waterfront) are much larger and their location
is both spectacular and evocative of the artist's message of the ever-incomplete
traveller. I found an unusually beautiful photograph of this work at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIRkCb-IFM0 where it is used as the static visual
background to some haunting music.
All the Les Voyageurs works are arresting but the principle is clear once you realise that
the suitcases/bags are all accurately weighted to precisely balance the rest of the metal
to which they attach. Somewhere along the way I noted an online comment with the
complaint that the sculptures were all too similar in that they all carried bags. I think
that person missed the physical necessity as well as the artistic point.
The only bit of the quiz that was slightly difficult was finding the name of the particular
bronze depicted. Whereas the series name was evident at many sites, it took a while to
find the title Le Destin du Voyageur. It first showed up for me at
mp2013.photos-provence.fr/les-voyageurs-de-bruno-catalano.php. I subsequently
found that it (or an identical cast) had been exhibited previously during the winter of
2010-11 in the French alpine resort Megève. You can see the same man here in the
snow with a board alongside that has the just-decipherable title Le Destin du Voyageur.
The text on the board can be clearly read here, and from the grey paving of the wall
that appears in both shots we can see that this is indeed the board alongside the relevant
sculpture in the snow.
Two additional complications. There was a second exhibition of Catalano's work in
Megève, 10 December 2014 to 15 April 2015 and it was advertised with Le Destin du
Voyageur in its Marseille setting, see here. I have been unable locate the quiz sculpture
there in situ - the only photo from that time span labelled Le Destin du Voyageur is of a
different work albeit a man in a leather jacket. I wondered if it was a second version,
and on Catalano's own website there is indeed a Le Destin du Voyageur 11. But this is
of a different figure again.
Whatever the case for these later works, I am convinced that Le Destin du Voyageur is
the correct title for the quiz pic which BTW is the reverse of all other photos of the
same work (not that you don't know that already). Here are some of them:
brunocatalano.com/sculpture-bronze/bruno-catalano-news.php?n=galeriephoto
The quiz sculpture can be seen in context in one of the scrolling pictures. The page also
gives links to press releases, videos, etc.
pourtoutlartdumonde.tumblr.com/post/47523345298/bruno-catalano... Scroll down to
see another picture of the traveller in the snow at Megève. There is more of the same
at Catalano's own site, viz: brunocatalano.com/expo-2011/img7.jpg,
brunocatalano.com/expo-2011/img8.jpg and brunocatalano.com/expo-2011/img9.jpg
At www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdEq2lEunO0 there is a video showing the setting up
of the Marseille exhibition. There is also an interview with the artist at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtdGfPIZChU.
And of course at brunocatalano.com/ there is all sorts of good stuff provided you click
top left to find the path to it.
Finally, at www.flickr.com/photos/98412377@N06/15577135237/ there is an
interesting "tribute" to Catalano's work.
I'll leave it at that.
Megan Neilsen
He's organised a bit differently from most of the other Voyageurs. That said, I suspect
that many will vote for Le Grand Van Gogh. While the Voyageurs are typically lifesize
sculptures Van Gogh (and his twin at the waterfront) are much larger and their location
is both spectacular and evocative of the artist's message of the ever-incomplete
traveller. I found an unusually beautiful photograph of this work at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIRkCb-IFM0 where it is used as the static visual
background to some haunting music.
All the Les Voyageurs works are arresting but the principle is clear once you realise that
the suitcases/bags are all accurately weighted to precisely balance the rest of the metal
to which they attach. Somewhere along the way I noted an online comment with the
complaint that the sculptures were all too similar in that they all carried bags. I think
that person missed the physical necessity as well as the artistic point.
The only bit of the quiz that was slightly difficult was finding the name of the particular
bronze depicted. Whereas the series name was evident at many sites, it took a while to
find the title Le Destin du Voyageur. It first showed up for me at
mp2013.photos-provence.fr/les-voyageurs-de-bruno-catalano.php. I subsequently
found that it (or an identical cast) had been exhibited previously during the winter of
2010-11 in the French alpine resort Megève. You can see the same man here in the
snow with a board alongside that has the just-decipherable title Le Destin du Voyageur.
The text on the board can be clearly read here, and from the grey paving of the wall
that appears in both shots we can see that this is indeed the board alongside the relevant
sculpture in the snow.
Two additional complications. There was a second exhibition of Catalano's work in
Megève, 10 December 2014 to 15 April 2015 and it was advertised with Le Destin du
Voyageur in its Marseille setting, see here. I have been unable locate the quiz sculpture
there in situ - the only photo from that time span labelled Le Destin du Voyageur is of a
different work albeit a man in a leather jacket. I wondered if it was a second version,
and on Catalano's own website there is indeed a Le Destin du Voyageur 11. But this is
of a different figure again.
Whatever the case for these later works, I am convinced that Le Destin du Voyageur is
the correct title for the quiz pic which BTW is the reverse of all other photos of the
same work (not that you don't know that already). Here are some of them:
brunocatalano.com/sculpture-bronze/bruno-catalano-news.php?n=galeriephoto
The quiz sculpture can be seen in context in one of the scrolling pictures. The page also
gives links to press releases, videos, etc.
pourtoutlartdumonde.tumblr.com/post/47523345298/bruno-catalano... Scroll down to
see another picture of the traveller in the snow at Megève. There is more of the same
at Catalano's own site, viz: brunocatalano.com/expo-2011/img7.jpg,
brunocatalano.com/expo-2011/img8.jpg and brunocatalano.com/expo-2011/img9.jpg
At www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdEq2lEunO0 there is a video showing the setting up
of the Marseille exhibition. There is also an interview with the artist at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtdGfPIZChU.
And of course at brunocatalano.com/ there is all sorts of good stuff provided you click
top left to find the path to it.
Finally, at www.flickr.com/photos/98412377@N06/15577135237/ there is an
interesting "tribute" to Catalano's work.
I'll leave it at that.
Megan Neilsen
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