基本説明
Pour le Château La Coste, Prune Nourry a imaginé une sculpture monumentale, Mater Earth, représentant une femme enceinte émergeant du paysage.
Vision rare d'une oeuvre en train de se faire, porte ouverte sur le processus créatif, ce catalogue raconte l'histoire de ce projet, donne à voir les étapes de son avancement, et met la sculpture en regard de tout ce qui l'a inspirée.
Autant de résonances accompagnées par une préface de Bono, un entretien avec Catherine Grenier et des extraits du Journal de la création de Nancy Huston.
Prune Nourry has created a monumental sculpture for Château La Coste, Mater Earth, representing a pregnant woman emerging from the earth.
This catalogue tells the project's story, offering a rare vision of a work in progress, a glimpse into the artistic process, with images chronicling each step of its creation and everything that inspired it.
Complementing these resonances are a preface by Bono, an interview with Catherine Grenier, and excerpts from Nancy Huston's Journal de la création.
Full Description
Devised for Château La Coste, Mater Earth takes us into the heart of humanity and the myths of creation. Prune Nourry created a monumental sculpture representing a pregnant work emerging from the earth, an immersive installation based on the principles of eco-responsible architecture. The work was first imagined back in 2010, when the artist invited a pregnant woman to pose in a bath of milk for a photography session. From those images of serenity, she created a life-size sculpture. Prune Nourry was instantly seized by a desire to produce a larger scale version of the work but it took several years of reflection before the desire became reality. The book follows the creation of the statue in situ, offering readers an original experience of symbolic rebirth. The work brings an inside view of the project and the mysteries of its conception, situating Mater Earth in Prune Nourry's rich and varied career. We see the stages of its development towards an ideal of "ultracollective chaos" involving multiple artists and artisans, as well as Prune Nourry's own ethical and ecological reflections and self-questioning. The work provides a rare vision of the gestation of creation, a window onto the creative process, showing everything that nourished the project and brought it to life. The illustrations resonate with this birthing process, creating a catalogue of the cultural and artistic motifs that inspired the work. Nancy Huston's journal provides sensitive, thoughtful insight into maternity, reflecting the slow metamorphosis of all works of creation.
