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    THE CAFESJIAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS PRESENTS TWO NEW SCULPTURES

    Lragir.am News
    http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/society23564.html
    16:03:52 - 30/09/2011

    Two new bronze sculptures are presented on the open-air Khanjyan
    terrace of the Cafesjian Center for the Arts (CCA) - The Visitor,
    2011, by British artist David Breuer-Weil, especially commissioned
    by Gerard L. Cafesjian for installation at the Cafesjian Center for
    the Arts, and Carpe (Très Grande), created in 2000 by French artist
    Francois-Xavier Lalanne.

    The two sculptures expand the impressive selection of monumental
    sculptures installed at the Cafesjian Sculpture Garden and the
    Cafesjian Center for the Arts, already listing such major names in
    contemporary art as Fernando Botero, Jaume Plensa, Barry Flanagan
    and Lynn Chadwick. Part of the Gerard L Cafesjian Collection, the
    sculptures' installation on the Cascade is in keeping with Mr.

    Cafesjian's suggested placement of the works in relation to one
    another.

    David Breuer-Weil is a British sculptor, born in London in 1965. The
    Visitor is the first monumental sculpture produced by the artist
    that compliments a new series of bronzes created by Breuer-Weil. The
    Visitor may be seen as an island of humanity, allowing the viewer's
    imagination to suggest the presence of the rest of the figure. The
    artist's fingerprints are enlarged to massive proportions on the
    surface, enhancing the emotive appeal of the work.

    Francois-Xavier Lalanne (1927 - 2008) began his artistic career in
    Montparnasse, where he painted landscapes and portraits.

    Francois-Xavier's sculptures play deliberately on the absurd.

    Proportion is exaggerated, whilst contours and details are simplified.

    Uncanny in their scale and context, such overwhelming bronze sculptures
    as Carpe (Très Grande) provide no apparent representation of nature,
    but, rather of literature as though displaced from the narratives of
    a fairytale. Francois-Xavier's bestiary is light-hearted, owing little
    to preconception and almost everything to the element of surprise.

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