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Lot Essay
La Fourmi est la dernière oeuvre de la série des Êtres hybrides de Germaine Richier, créatures mi-animales, mi-humaines, nées de l'observation conjointe des deux espèces. L'artiste y exploite son observation amusée et attentive des insectes, à laquelle elle mêle la gestuelle de modèles féminins, éléments indispensables à sa création.
Filiformes, étirées et poétiques, ses sculptures rappellent celles de Giacometti pour qui 'la sculpture repose sur le vide'. C'est ce vide que Germaine Richier parvient à incorporer dans ses oeuvres grâce aux fils qu'elle tend, comme autant de lignes de force. La Fourmi marque l'ultime utilisation de ces fils qui animent et géométrisent l'insecte anthropomorphique et qui, aériens mais solides, tissent et enserrent la sculpture.
La Fourmi is the last work in Germaine Richier's series of Êtres hybrides, half-animal, half-human creatures created out of the joint study of two species. In creating them, the artist makes use of her amused and attentive observation of insects, which she combines with the gestures of female models, an element vital to her creativity.
Drawn out, spindly and poetic, her sculptures are reminiscent of those of Giacometti for whom 'sculpture relies on the empty space'. It is this empty space that Germaine Richier manages to incorporate into her work through the wires she draws out, like so many lines of force. La Fourmi marks the ultimate use of these wires which animate and geometrize the anthropomorphic insect and which, ethereal yet solid, intertwine and encircle the sculpture.
Filiformes, étirées et poétiques, ses sculptures rappellent celles de Giacometti pour qui 'la sculpture repose sur le vide'. C'est ce vide que Germaine Richier parvient à incorporer dans ses oeuvres grâce aux fils qu'elle tend, comme autant de lignes de force. La Fourmi marque l'ultime utilisation de ces fils qui animent et géométrisent l'insecte anthropomorphique et qui, aériens mais solides, tissent et enserrent la sculpture.
La Fourmi is the last work in Germaine Richier's series of Êtres hybrides, half-animal, half-human creatures created out of the joint study of two species. In creating them, the artist makes use of her amused and attentive observation of insects, which she combines with the gestures of female models, an element vital to her creativity.
Drawn out, spindly and poetic, her sculptures are reminiscent of those of Giacometti for whom 'sculpture relies on the empty space'. It is this empty space that Germaine Richier manages to incorporate into her work through the wires she draws out, like so many lines of force. La Fourmi marks the ultimate use of these wires which animate and geometrize the anthropomorphic insect and which, ethereal yet solid, intertwine and encircle the sculpture.