{"id":2352,"date":"2020-10-09T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estuaire.info\/?post_type=oeuvre&#038;p=2352"},"modified":"2021-01-06T18:40:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T17:40:15","slug":"le-pied-le-pull-over-et-le-systeme-digestif","status":"publish","type":"oeuvre","link":"https:\/\/www.estuaire.info\/en\/oeuvre\/le-pied-le-pull-over-et-le-systeme-digestif\/","title":{"rendered":"Le pied, le pull-over et le syst\u00e8me digestif"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Between Saint-Nazaire\u2019s \u201ccrab claw\u201d jetties, next to the harbour master&#8217;s office, and on a beach lined with stone pine trees that extends out into the basin of the outer harbour, stands a work made up of three sculptures respectively representing a foot, a pullover and a digestive tract. Camped out among the surrounding sand and rocks, these gigantic figures carved out of large concrete blocks stand nearly seven metres (23 ft.) tall. Like fragments taken from a body, a building, or a maritime monument, they offer a landscape-size portrait of our modern civilization, itself also subject to the erosion and colonization of the elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daniel Dewar and Gr\u00e9gory Gicquel have been sculpting as a duo since 1998. Self-taught in almost every technique they use, they practice the art of sculpture without subscribing to traditional rules, integrating it within a wider spectrum of traditional media ranging from textiles to ceramics and woodworking to stonemasonry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This work was completed with the support of: the City of Saint-Nazaire, the greater Saint-Nazaire urban conglomeration, state funding (DRAC Pays de la Loire) as part of the Ministry of Culture\u2019s public commission programme, the D\u00e9partement des Pays de la Loire, l<em>es Nouveaux Constructeurs<\/em> and Le Voyage \u00e0 Nantes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This project has been co-financed by the European Union. Europe is committed to the Bassin de la Loire through its European Regional Development Fund.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between Saint-Nazaire\u2019s \u201ccrab claw\u201d jetties, next to the harbour master&#8217;s office, and on a beach lined with stone pine trees that extends out into the basin of the outer harbour, stands a work made up of three sculptures respectively representing a foot, a pullover and a digestive tract. Camped out among the surrounding sand and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":408,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estuaire.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oeuvre\/2352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estuaire.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oeuvre"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estuaire.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oeuvre"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estuaire.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estuaire.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.estuaire.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oeuvre\/2352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403,"href":"https:\/\/www.estuaire.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oeuvre\/2352\/revisions\/2403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estuaire.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}