The year 2025 will be largely devoted to celebrating the 80e anniversary of the end of the Second World War and the liberation of the concentration camps. The L’Entre-là de Saint-Gladie association, in partnership with the Oranienbourg-Sachsenhausen concentration camp association, wished to remember the dark episodes of our history during the weekend from Friday 24 to Sunday January 26 in Saint-Gladie.
It was after a visit to this Sachsenhausen concentration camp, in Germany, with her grandfather Georges Durou, that the sculptor Cécile Vassort began creating a monumental sculpture, “Weaving links”, to combine her family memorial heritage with its creative impulses in the service of a collective and universal memory.
An original technique
His monumental sculpture includes 12 figures with a height of 1.90 m, made of terracotta brick. The raw brick sculpture technique used by the artist requires several stages. She hoists a column of raw bricks which she shapes to reveal her characters. The sculpture is then dismantled brick by brick and numbered, then sent to the brickworks for drying and firing of the bricks before their final reassembly.
-The exhibition will take place on rue du Pic d’Anie in Saint-Gladie on Saturday January 25 and the inauguration of the sculpture the next day at 1:45 p.m. in the presence of the artist and Christine Cavailles, president of the Association of former deportees from Sachsenhausen. It will then be installed at the Sachsenhausen camp memorial next April for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camps. For the artist Cécile Vassort, “the characters do not resemble each other, to move towards the acceptance of the difference of the other. I dedicate this work to my grandfather Georges Durou and his comrades.”
It will be possible to watch the documentary “To live is to resist”, by Olivier Minh, during the three days. Four artists will also be present: the photographer Jean-Louis Saiz, the metal sculptor Reï, the painter Jean Henri Maisonneuve and Les Jongleurs de Terre, ceramic sculptor.
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