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forges out of them unique creatures which do not tie avatar of the material and the forms where the deepest
up with anything known but which have however, elementary structures betray themselves. The everyday
kept the essential character at a pure state and, without and the permanent mix closely, the formulated and the
alteration, of the multiple species. indescribable. Abysses and craters through which
In the statue of David, so impressing in its securing breathes the raw matter open up in the steel and the
of erect and enclosed planes, the body has become a polished bronze.
kind of tight armature whose members have come apart. For him there is no contradiction between things.
David 1959 His universe is both commonplace and secular. There Some timorous critics have reproached him for his
Bronze 1.25 m. high
Galerie Claude Bernard is no contradiction for him between the accidental contradictions, also his way of alternating between pure

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