Sculptor and drawing artist, Alain S\u00e9chas made his name with his cats, a recurring design in his work since 1996.
\u201cThese cats play every role and throw them at us unrestrictedly and on all grounds: sex, invectives, fantasy, the role of art, black humour, social behaviours, desire or fear of the other. Human failings are the foundations of the artist\u2019s success. He merrily draws his inspiration from them and the source is rich indeed unending. Martian of everyday life, sleepwalker in single file, sexy superwoman or little star in flowery leggings, he caricatures us with fluidity, naturally, implacable\u201d. Marc Sanchez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At Saint-Jean-de-Boiseau, Alain S\u00e9chas seizes History and uses the three submerged masts of the Antarktis, a 15-tonne Norwegian tanker sunk during a scuttling in 1944, to create a fountain. This fountain is really remarkable, it evokes the \u201cChrist and the two thieves\u201d scene and at the same time the drowning of the sailors\u2026 Like roadside crosses transformed in cats spitting out water.
The very peculiar story of this site was not lost on the artist: at the end of the Second World War, whilst the Loire was cluttered up with German and allied wrecks, there were gathered and sunk at this place. An artificial island formed there and was then named \u201cBikini Island\u201d, in reference to the first American nuclear tests in the Pacific atoll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014 \u0152uvre r\u00e9alis\u00e9e pour Estuaire 2007 gr\u00e2ce au soutien de Suez, Partenaire Officiel, avec l\u2019appui technique de Diluvial, Partenaire Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n