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Imaginary fortified city Sculpture

Nicolas Moussette

France

Sculpture, Ceramic on Ceramic

Size: 17.7 W x 17.7 H x 15.7 D in

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This imaginary fortified city shows a very peculiar setting: a huge central rock with buildings bulging out of it a bit like cactus arms. This rock is like a column of stone planted into an enormous pit of a volcano. Around the pit lies a mountain with a path going downwards all around, through the trees. It is a real fantastic landscape, with an even more fantastic town, cut from the outside world. Effectively, there is no bridge between the edge of the pit where the path ends and the entrance of the city, a hole dug into the rock. The city itself is a world apart, with many flights of steps, corners, courtyards, secondary streets... I called this imaginary fortified city also Hakum, as it is part of my Addictionville project, within which it is the capital city of the Lordship of Rhith, one of the vassal states of Olethros tyrany (see Olethros map). This art piece's theme is surely about seclusion, protection. It is in fact about apartheid, this great fear of the outside world and the fear of change. Humans must have this tendency inborn, in constant fight with the constant change that characterises the world and life. So, no matter how harmonious and interesting the city might look like, it is a very dystopic environment of closing its communities from the outside world. The leaders of the communities might have wanted to create their paradise there, their utopia, but as it was built on the need to seclude yourself from the outside world, this reflex induces that most probably life there might also be hell...

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Sculpture:Ceramic on Ceramic

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:17.7 W x 17.7 H x 15.7 D in

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I am a French and Polish artist, born in Paris in 1972. Coming from a family of artists (my mother Julita is a sculptor, my sister Gabrielle a painter, my brother Pierre a music composer...) I've expressed myself in my childhood mainly through drawing. Then for many years I dropped art totally and went into studies and work, to realise a few years back I cannot live without creating. A peak time is my New York experience for a few month in 2008, where I briefly just plunged into creation, before coming back to what had become my normal everyday life... After that, this urge for creation has grown on me progressively until a recent making out in 2011, when returning from a very enriching experience as a plumber in Bangladesh slums, where I had spent about a year and a half... Quite lost at my return home, I can say I slowly came back to myself only through art. The action of sculpting was a highly restructuring experience to me.It rebuilt me and gave a new meaning to my life. Since then, I've been creating and considering myself as an artist. In the meantime I got married and am a father of adorable twin boys, born in 2016. With this parenthood experience my creation has necessarily evolved, I considered myself primarily as a sculptor, but with restricted time and access to my clay workshop in Touraine I had much frustration. Hence my latest sculpture projects with various materials including recyclables and rubbish, my recent return to drawing, my discovery of collage and also painting to a lesser extent. Today, another page will be turned with our installation mid 2017 in a new house in Saint Cloud, near Paris, with the possibility of having a workshop at home, and generally more space and more time dedicated to creation.

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