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Cover: Tours - "The Monster" outdoor sculpture by Xavier Veilhan

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29 Rue de la Cuiller, 37000 Tours, France
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Le Monstre
Xavier Veilhan
2004

4,40 x 3,60 x 4,20 m

acier, polystyrène, résine polyester, fibre de vèrre, vernis polyester
steel, polystyrene, polyester resin, fiberglass, polyester varnish

En 2000 déşireux d’inviter un artiste à donner une identité forte à la place du Grand Marché, des commerçants et riverains ont confié cette commande à Xavier Veilhan.
L’artiste a créé une figure genérique, avec un langage artistique volontairement réduit à l’essentiel une forme, une couleur, un matériau à même de convoquer l’imaginaire de chacun. Le Monstre actualise dans un esprit ludique les figures héraldiques et fait ainsi écho au passé médiévàl de la place dont il est désormais le nouvel emblème.

CŒUVRE REALISÉE DANS LE CADRE DE L’ACTION NOUVEAUX COMMANDITAIRES INITIÉE PAR LA FONDATION DE FRANCE EN COPRODUCTION AVEC LA VILLE DE TOURS MEDIATION-PRODUCTION: ETERNAL NETWORK

In 2000, a group of shopkeepers and local residents were keen to invite an artist to lend a strong identity to the Place du Grand Marche, so they placed their commission with Xavier Veilhan.
The artist created a generic figure with an artistic language deliberately reduced to essentials: a form, a colour, a material - capable of engaging everyone’s imagination. In a playful spirit, The Monster updates heraldic figures and thus echoes the mediaeval past of the square, where it has now become the new emblem.

WORK PRODUCED AS PART OF
THE NEW PATRONS PROGRAMME
INITIATED BY THE FONDATION DE FRANCE IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH THE CITY OF TOURS
MEDIATION-PRODUCTION: ETERNAL NETWORK
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The statue the plaque points to was photographed on the same day Click for a larger image

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