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Simon Deppierraz
Switzerland
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Artist highlights
- Favorited by galleries
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Marble, Steel Without Stand
- Dimensions : Length: 19.7in, Height: 19.7in, Depth: 7.9in
About this artwork
Marble is repurposed from its usual decorative function, while still evoking the cladding. Grand Antique, its contemporary name, is a very hard marble, difficult to work, but robust. It can be found in Istanbul at Hagia Sophia, in Rome in the Basilicas of St. Peter, St. Mary Major, and St. Cecilia, in Venice at St. Mark's, in Paris at the Church of Saint-Louis-des-Invalides, in London at the base of St. Peter's Monument in Westminster, and at Versailles…
in the Salon de Diane… Pyrenees marble is ubiquitous in the greatest monuments of France. Yet it comes from a single quarry in Moulis, Ariège. Its exploitation ceased in 1948. It resumed in 2014, operated by Georgio Rivieri, a quarryman who conducted an investigation for two years before finding the quarry submerged in water and buried under a mass of vegetation. By kayak, he surveyed the lake that had formed in the quarry, mapping its topography with a plumb line. The story of this career
Simon Deppierraz
Switzerland
Credentials
- Favorited by galleries
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
Simon Deppierraz works in sculpture, installation, drawing, and printing, drawing on a background in his training at ECAL, where he directed the lithography workshop. He experiments with stone, metal, wood, and rope, seeking balance and tension between opposing forces, mastering each step of the process to maintain a rare autonomy. His style, conceptual and technical, dialogues with architecture and space, transforming the viewer's perception. He conveys the vertigo, fragility, and invisible energy of the world, inviting everyone to experience the poetry of matter and gesture.
Simon Deppierraz
Pinch point
$5,600
