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lpousteguy

by Jacques Lassaigne

lpousteguy has devoted himself to sculpture since about very intimate relations, nearly organic. There is in
1950. After having painted and always having drawn lpousteguy as in many sculptors a great divination of
much, it is incontestible that in sculpture almost from the unexpected and secret aspects of the object: all
the outset he has realised his deep intention which is sorts of hidden phenomena add themselves to the
to enclose in all created form a content which has visible and dress themselves, exteriorise themselves
preserved all its intrinsic, and irreducible character. into strange forms. But the artist has an inventive,
His first works, great angular constructions, are a imaginative sense, and at the same time a will, a
Roger et le Peup/e des Moris, 1 961 superposition of materials, of objects, of human beings. dominating instinct. If he combines different elements,
Bronze 51 in. high Each and every one combine, but they intermingle in belonging to different realms, water, earth or sky, he
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