Since June 3, part of the gardens of the Bosquet d’Alès has vibrated with a thousand hammer blows… This is the area reserved for the 1st sculpture symposium where artists create in the open air.
These days, it is a white dust which, from time to time, in the gardens of the Bosquet, comes to coat the rolling strokes of scissors which, with the hammers, form a symphony worthy of an ensemble of percussion instruments. orchestra. Indeed, at the foot of the Vauban fortress, a small armada of French and foreign sculptors creates contemporary works of art intended to adorn the Alesian gardens. This first sculpture symposium, under the supervision of the Franco-Egyptian sculptor Salem, is a privileged moment of artistic creation in the open air.
Outdoors and for fun
Some sculptors have already made good progress in their work, since the challenge is limited in time, to that of the month of June. An opportunity to meet some of them and hear them talk about this profession where gesture must create form. Pedro is Spanish and he comes from Tudela, a small town in the Navarre region: “The work that I am sculpting at the moment is called Snake Skin. It is reminiscent of the skin that we find in nature after the snake has molted.”
Midi Libre – Th. M.
Right next door, we can see the Egyptian sculptor Samar El Bassal who specifies: “I am in the process of carving this block to create a work called plant. It will be finished in a fortnight, with working hours going from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. The sculpture will keep the natural color of the stone.”
Midi Libre – Th. M.
While another Egyptian artist Helal Moawia, originally from Cairo, is finishing a monumental sculpture which sanctifies work and the machine: “It is a part of a sewing machine,” he explains, “intended to describe the movement to the point that man and machine have become identical.” Artists with strong aesthetics whose works will bear witness, for decades to come, to their time in Alesia.
