Dang LEBADANG (1921-2015) Composition, "Espaces" series Marb

Dang LEBADANG (1921-2015) Composition, "Espaces" series Marble sculpture Signed on back 41 x 41 cm Provenance: collection of Madame W., friend of the artist Note: "In 1985, he began what was undoubtedly his major work, the Espaces series (...) a kind of landscape in relief, a landscape seen from the sky (...) At the time, he was interested in the aerial views of the Nazca geoglyphs taken by the American photographer Marilyn Bridges. He saw in them a link between man and the Cosmos." ("Lebadang 1921-2015" by Luc Ho, Editions Lelivredart, 2022) "On closer inspection, Lebadang's work appears lunar, silently lunar. Spaces that we observe from above, where the unevenness and asperities of the terrain remind us of the "terra incognita" of early explorers. As if this were the realm of the spirits, the refuge of the memory of the dead. At first glance, a work in which the eye sweeps across icy, desert landscapes, where the only hint of a lake or glacier is a sheet of blue. Between the serenity and silence that precede storms, Lebadang becomes the architect of nature. (François Nédellec, former curator of the Musée de la Castre in Cannes)